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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer)
- Subject: Re: 1.44M floppy on Mega STE
- Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:15:26 GMT
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- In article <...>, gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai) writes:
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- |> (...) So my questions are:
- |> 1) Is the WD1772 reliable for 1.44M disks?
- |> 2) Does TOS 2.05 know how to format 1.44M disks?
- |> 3) If the desktop does not know how to format 1.44M disks, can the
- |> XBIOS format routine in TOS 2.05 format 1.44M disks?
- |> 4) I know there is a DIP switch somewhere that has something to do
- |> with 1.44M floppies. What does it do?
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- 1) dunno
- 2) yep, see 3 & 4
- 3) yep, I'm using one of these HD-Modules and it works, just having some
- problems with the drive itself...
- 4) it's dip switch #7 (?!) and if it's turned on there's a box "high-density"
- in the desktop format utility
-
- TeSche
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