🚀 go-pugleaf

jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton) writes:
:
>You can use some of the diskettes formatted with fdformat on O/2 2.x 
>without any special handling.  You just can't format them.  The option 
>does not exist in the floppy disk driver IOCTL packet.

IMO, this is plain dumb...

:
>Bear in mind that you will NOT be able to use these diskettes under 
>Warp.  The diskette driver was reworked to allow the 18??-kiloybyte 
>distribution format and in the process the other extended formats were 
>disabled.

As it happens, my Warp Fullpack Gamma does read 1.72 disks again. (I
also changed my motherboard to a new PCI thingy that supports 2.88
disks; now I can't read these 1.72 disks from DOS any more!!!)

Anyhow, thanks, IBM. A little feature but helps us who have a lot of
archives on non-144 diskettes.
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