Re: Formatting Floppies > normal capacity

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From: George Vlahoulis
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 00:00

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Craig Sampson (csampson@uniwa.uwa.edu.au) wrote:

> 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

I have floppies formatted using fdformat and none has givenme any problem 
yet. OS2 read and writes to them just fine.

I have used them on 2.1,2,11 and now warp.

George.


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From: s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis)
Subject: Re: Formatting Floppies > normal capacity
Date: 1995/03/31
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