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- From: medin@nosc.mil (Ted Medin)
- Subject: Re: Increased (irregular) floppy format sizes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.185132.22622@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <1992Nov2.213114.23536@unislc.uucp> <1992Nov4.163029.27079@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov07.040854.1999@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:51:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov07.040854.1999@microsoft.com> georgef@microsoft.com (George Forsman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.163029.27079@klaava.Helsinki.FI> jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen) writes:
- >>I've used FDREAD/FORMAT 1.6 for ages now, and even on punched old 720K
- >[...]
- >>either Stacker nor FDREAD), and I re-installed all the stuff from my
- >>back-up disks. Now I was rather surprised when I realized that I had
- >>done the backup to FDFORMATted 720K disks (->800K), and I restored it
- >>with _plain_ DOS 5! A feature Microsoft forgot to mention..?
- >>
- >MS-DOS will believe what is stored in the BPB of the disk. If the disk
- >geometry has been placed there correctly, the MS-DOS will be able to read
- >the disk, even with a non-standard format.
- >
- >It's FORMAT that enforces the disk capacity standards. To make FORMAT
- >do all the things that FDFORMAT does would add a degree of complexity that
- >would confuse most users, as well as introducing a undesired amount of
- >support issues.
-
- I cant read fdformated diskettts in dos 3.3 without the tsr. Wonder if
- dos 5.0 fixed that?
-