Formatting 720k on 1.44M drive

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From: Jim Hunt
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 18:18

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I am having problems formatting 720k media on my new 1.44M drive.
I give the command:

format b: /n:9 /t:80

The error message back says something like "Invalid media or Track 0 
bad - disk unusable".  This looks like the drive thinks it is formatting
1.44M media instead of 720k media.  I have an AT clone machine, it is
set up for a 360k drive A:, 1.44M drive B:, and I'm running DOS 3.30.
Anyone have any ideas what my problem is?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

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