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Article #6871Re: Formatting Floppies > normal capacity
From: Peter da Graca
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 00:17
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 00:17
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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
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