🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter da Graca (pdgrac1@euronet.nl) wrote:
: In message <3kp1b0$do6@styx.uwa.edu.au> - csampson@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Craig Samp
: son) writes:
: >
: >Is there a utility around for OS/2 that will format floppy disks to 
: >larger than their normal capaicty?  I'm using a program called FDformat 
: >at the moment which does wonderful stuff like format 1.2M diskettes to 
: >1.5M etc etc, I'd like to be able to use these under OS/2 but the driver 
: >required relies on normal handling of int13 so doesn't work under OS/2 at all
: >
: >
: >Cheers,
: >Craig
: Use OS/2's V2.1 floppy driver (ibmflpy1.add). I'm able to read those 1.72 Mb 
: floppies, I haven't succeeded in formatting them. I've heard the 
: fullpack-floppydriver also is able to read (and write?) fdformatted disks...
: Dunno if this is true..
: Peter

I have installed the CSD for Warp (red box version) and I am happy to 
report that OS/2 now reads and writes the FDformat diskettes just as it 
did in earlier (2.x) versions.

That still leaves the problem of formatting the diskettes in the first 
place.  I guess DOS is still good for something.  Painful, though, to 
have to wait for a floppy format to finish before you can do anything else.

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