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- From: johnson@cps.msu.edu (Graham K. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Can my 3.5" 1.44M floppy handle >9 sectors/track?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.182635.5810@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:26:35 GMT
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Reply-To: johnson@cps.msu.edu (Graham K. Johnson)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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- Originator: johnson@indian.cps.msu.edu
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- I am trying to create a disk for a 780K file that both a 386 and an
- Atari ST can read. (A double sided disk)
- I tried formatting a disk to 10 sectors/track on the ST, and on the
- 386 dir and chkdsk worked fine (saying the disk was ~820K), but I
- wasn't able to write to it (drive not ready error).
- To get this far I put the line:
- drivparm=/d:0 /s:10
- in my config.sys file.
-
- I think my drive is a pretty standard internal drive. Is it possible
- to get a double sided floppy formatted for other than 80 tracks & 9
- sectors to work on a 386?
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