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- From: sknkwrks@mayall.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
- In-Reply-To: lonews@.abg's message of 5 Nov 92 13:57:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <SKNKWRKS.92Nov6105334@mayall.cs.unlv.edu>
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- Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
- References: <SKNKWRKS.92Nov3214535@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> <2212@oss1.abg.psi.DE>
- Date: 06 Nov 92 17:53:34 GMT
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- In article <2212@oss1.abg.psi.DE> lonews@.abg (lonews) writes:
- >sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
- >>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 ??
-
- Yes...the TSR is already loaded.
-
- Somebody mentioned problems with v1.8 that caused him to go back to
- v1.6...maybe there's a bug in v1.8. (Gonna have to look for an older
- version...)
-
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