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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.110425.5825@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Dec14.030308.28344@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:04:25 GMT
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- Jeremy Mathers (pynq@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- > 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).
-
- Great! I had not tried to read them actually. You can't format to > 1.44MB
- under OS/2 though on 1.44MB drives. I am not surprised, really, that OS/2
- does read them. It should simply pick up the extra tracks & sectors form
- the format type. My complaint is really that you can't specify something
- like /F:82 on the format line because it tells you that the drive can't do
- it!
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-