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- From: lonews@.abg (lonews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
- Message-ID: <2212@oss1.abg.psi.DE>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 13:57:34 GMT
- References: <SKNKWRKS.92Nov3214535@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Organization: PSI Boschweg 6 8750 Aschaffenburg
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- sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
-
- [deleted]
- >However, the formatting process freezes early on whenever you try to
- >put more than the usual 15 sectors per track on a disk. (Yes, I am
- >using real high-density disks.)
- [deleted]
- >It freezes on track 79, head 1...it keeps trying to format and never
- >tries to verify and move on to the next (previous) track. Anybody
- >have a clue as to why this happens?
-
- Did you load the FDREAD-TSR from the FDFORMAT-Package ??
-
- Do a RTFM on the table in the manual for which format-types
- this TSR is needed.
-
- -jk
-