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In article <1991Jan27.101629.1@cbrown.claremont.edu> dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
>In article <1005@ra.MsState.Edu>, it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
>> In article <1991Jan26.015628.15182@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> daver@ECE.ORST.EDU (Dave Rabinowitz) writes:
>>>   Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable
>>>   Format failure
>>   I usually just toss those disks.  I haven't tried this but one of
>Silly boy. The problem is with certain versions of DOS and 1.44M
>drives. I'm not sure whether DOS or the drive is at fault, but
>the error simply means that it's trying to format the disk HD and
>can't. Use FORMAT A: /t:80/n:9 and all will be well.
>

Yep, it is actually "pilot error".  Your CMOS setup designates the drive
as HD, but you are trying to format DD disks.  DOS will try to format
with the default form according to setup.  So neither the drive nor the
DOS version is at fault.

IF you have DOS 4.0/4.01, just use the command FORMAT A: /f:720.  Don's
switches are for DOS 3.3.  DOS 3.2 only handles 720K drives, so you
wouldn't have this problem ... :-)

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