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Article #32259Re: SS disks
From: Barnacle Wes
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 14:43
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 14:43
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In article <167@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) rambles:
% Nope. The single-sided 3.5" disk drives write on the top. The O.S.
% has nothing to do with this. A 3.5" SS disk drive is undefined in the
% MS-DOS world, by the way - MS-DOS only recognizes 720K and 1.44M 3.5"
% disks.
In article <613@lakesys.UUCP>, rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) writes:
> Wrong. MS-DOS will work with 360K SS disks also. All one hase
> to do is change the information in the config.sys file and one can
> make MS-DOS work with SS drives, a 5 1/4 and a SS drive or DS drive
> and a SS drive or any combination of the above.
Yes, a couple of days ago, I re-read the options to the DEVICS.SYS
device driver. You can make MS-DOS recognize just about any
combination that the floppy controller can handle now; you just can't
format them with the DOS formatter (which is brain-dead anyhow).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SS disks Message-ID: <194@obie.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 14:43:47 GMT References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet> <167@obie.UUCP> <613@lakesys.UUCP> Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch Lines: 20 Summary: Yah, but you can't format them!