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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.202252.20236@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul27.192109.12875@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:22:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.192109.12875@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >>
- >>Actually, the disks read just fine under stock OS/2 2.0, without loading the
- >>FDREAD driver. I guess OS/2 actually reads the format specs before reading
- >>from the floppy. Maybe that's why it is so slow :-)
- >
- >Interesting. Perhaps, though, this is simply because OS/2 recognizes
- >the 1.44MB format. How does it do with non-standard formats (like the
- >1.7MB format)? Under DOS, you can read the first 18 sectors of each
- >track, and the rest give sector-not-found errors.
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- No, it copies large files to and from 1.72 Mb floppies, without any hickups,
- other than the file sharing bug errors.
-
- IBM!!! Fix the bugs!!!!
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