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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!ornl!rm3
- From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
- Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.171105.17182@ornl.gov>
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec13.211639.5523@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <1992Dec13.221646.26349@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:11:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.221646.26349@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> you write:
- >
- >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!
- >
- Try it. Works fine on some hardware. On my ZEOS 486/33 I have to format the
- disks from a native DOS session with fdformat but once that is done, OS/2 will
- read and write to the disks with no problems to date. Used this trick to
- install the OS/2 beta from a 5 1/4 A: drive way back when.
-
- Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov
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