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Article #182FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
From: Scott Alfter
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 04:45
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 04:45
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After seeing the chatter about FDFORMAT, I picked up v1.8 from (I think) a local BBS. It works fine with 5.25" double-density disks...it formatted one of those to 800K with no problems. It's also supposed to be able to format 5.25" high-density disks to 1.48 megs. However, the formatting process freezes early on whenever you try to put more than the usual 15 sectors per track on a disk. (Yes, I am using real high-density disks.) Hardware: 286-12, C&T SCAT BIOS, generic IDE/FD/ser/par/game controller, Teac 5.25" high-density floppy drive. System software: DR DOS 6.0. (I also normally run DESQview on my system, but had DV off while attempting to format disks.) It freezes on track 79, head 1...it keeps trying to format and never tries to verify and move on to the next (previous) track. Anybody have a clue as to why this happens? _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu / v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today! Ask me about SoftDAC--digital (IIe ( (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis audio for your Apple IIe/IIc! \_^_/ If Bill Clinton is the answer, it must've been a damn stupid question!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!news.unomaha.edu!nevada.edu!jimi!news.cs.unlv.edu!sknkwrks From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) Subject: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks Message-ID: <SKNKWRKS.92Nov3214535@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User) Organization: Skunk Works Software Co. Date: 04 Nov 92 04:45:35 GMT Lines: 24