Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks

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From: Scott Alfter
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:53

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In article <2212@oss1.abg.psi.DE> lonews@.abg (lonews) writes:
>sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>>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.)
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>>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?
>
>Did you load the FDREAD-TSR from the FDFORMAT-Package ??

Yes...the TSR is already loaded.

Somebody mentioned problems with v1.8 that caused him to go back to
v1.6...maybe there's a bug in v1.8.  (Gonna have to look for an older
version...)

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From: sknkwrks@mayall.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
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