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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.030308.28344@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 03:03:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.211639.5523@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <1992Dec13.221646.26349@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Dec13.221646.26349@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- ...
- >It's a pity that OS/2 provides no support for >1.4 meg on (so-called)
- >1.4meg diskettes. With FDREAD under DOS, you can go to 82 trakcs and
- >extra sectors too and get up to 1.76MB on a disk. I can't see why IBM chose
- >not to include such support. We are intelligent to realise that if we use
- >such disks, other people won't be able to use the disks (unless they run
- >FDREAD under DOS lets say) and take care. They claim a DOS better than DOS
- >but in some areas I feel they could have made it even better!
-
- It's funny you should mention that. I have had no problems reading and
- writing FDFORMAT'd diskettes (3.5", 1.72M) under OS/2 (w/o loading any
- driver or such). It seems to just work. I assumed that they had
- re-written (re-implemented) enuf of the BIOS to make this work. This is
- on a machine where, in order to access these diskettes under plain DOS,
- I do have to load the driver (FDREAD.EXE).
-
- I have yet to format a floppy (to any density) under OS/2, though...
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