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- From: hst@mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra)
- Subject: Re: Making a 720k drive work when the BIOS only speaks 5 1/4"
- In-Reply-To: baumgard@CS.ColoState.EDU's message of 8 Sep 92 21:41:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuCp8H.HpM@pronto.mh.nl>
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- Sender: hst@pronto.mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra)
- Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands
- References: <Sep08.214129.47460@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:09:52 GMT
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- Try the FDFORMAT program which is available from many archive sites.
- It allows you to format floppies where you specify the number of
- tracks AND the number of sectors.
-
- Also it is possible to change the Drive paramaters in BIOS dataspace
- to let the BIOS think it is a 720K drive, but that is a little more
- complicated.
-
- My brother had the same problem and we solved it with the FDFORMAT
- program.
-
- Good Luck,
-
- Klaas
-
-