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- From: dhalem@cats.ucsc.edu (Daniel Aaron Halem)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 02:04:58 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- References: <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec18.214245.3365@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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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.
- >--
- > |) David Charlap | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
- > /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
- >((|,) | source of these .signature virusses
- > ~|~
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- Problems such as these are usually due to the diskette parameter table
- being setup improperly for 720k diskettes. Some of the other formatting
- programs can handle this properly. I have written a formatter that does this
- but since it is part of a commercial product, I cannot distribute it. I have
- found this problem to be the most pronounced on AMI bios'es.
-
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