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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.214245.3365@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:42:45 GMT
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- In article <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
- >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.
-
- Neat. This sounds like a better problem than the one I have. My
- system can not format 720K disks - attempting to do so results in
- unuseable floppies. However, if another computer formats them to
- 720K, my system will have no problem reading or writing them. This is
- with the OS/2 format command and with the DOS 5.0 FORMAT command
- (booted into a VMB).
-
- I have yet to try booting straight DOS 5.0, so I don't know if it's a
- hard or soft error.
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