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- From: hennes@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reading PC Disks?
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:38:00 GMT
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- David Crooke (dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Formatting 720K's on a 1.44MB PeeCee drive.......
- :
- : I have used FORMAT A:/T:80/N:9 on many a PeeCee and it has never failed...
- :
- : ^------- specifies 80 tracks, nine sectors
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- Yes, this works perfectly.
- Format /F:xxx works only from dos 5.
- The option /u is only needed from dos 5 in order to tell it not to waste
- nearly a minute on trying to read old disks that are in a not expected format
- like 880K (Amiga) 1.7Mb (Amiga) 1.6Mb (Mac) ect..
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- Use all disclaimers possible, if fail then crash
- Hennes
- : Dave
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