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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.144059.9116@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 14:40:59 GMT
- References: <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
- >Ok... Here's a problem for all you OS/2 gurus out there...
- >
- >Everytime I go to my DOS 5.0 partition (via Boot Manager) and format
- >a disk using DOS 5.0 (format a: /f:1440 /u) it works fine. Then when
- >I try to dir the disk I just formatted, I get a general failure reading
- >drive A: error. But if I go to OS/2 and try to read the same disk, it
- >works fine. OS/2 can read and write to these disks no problem but DOS
- >can't!!! DOS always gives the general failure error when OS/2 reads
- >them.
-
- Another of Doug's 1000 reasons not to use DOS 5. (*)
-
- I have the same problem when I format a disk under DOS 3.x (real DOS),
- then write on it with DOS 5. The diskette becomes unreadable by DOS 5.
- DOS 3 can, of course, read the diskette with no problems.
-
- DOS 5 is full of bugs and should be avoided.
-
- (*) Don't need no steenkin' DOS 4, no DOS 5, no DOS 6, no Windoze.
- I made the quantum leap from DOS 3.31 (which, combined with QEMM,
- does everything DOS 5 does and much more and much better) to OS/2 2.0.
-
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