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Article #41223Re: Formatting 3.5" Diskette
From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 03:49
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 03:49
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In article <7509@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes: | | I believe that you have encountered a bug in all known versions of DOS | FORMAT. It doesn't check whether its buffers cross over a DMA boundary, and | blindly uses them; this results in an error which makes FORMAT claim the | disk is unusable. The solution is to add or remove a TSR to shift the | location in memory where FORMAT gets loaded. Did you miss the part where he said he didn't have the problem with other brands of disk? I can't think of any way DMA would sense this... -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Formatting 3.5" Diskette Message-ID: <401@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 90 03:49:58 GMT References: <20972@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <7509@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 15