Can I force a 10 meg disk to a 16 bit FAT and 2k cluster with DOS 3.1

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From: Peter Harrison%MIS
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1986 05:58

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I have a Compaq portable with a Microscience drive with an Adaptec
controller.

Is it true that FORMAT will only format 20 meg disks with a 2k cluster
size?  I tried setting up even very small partitions (280k) and format
always made a 12 bit FAT and 4k cluster.


Peter Harrison
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Subject: Can I force a 10 meg disk to a 16 bit FAT and 2k cluster with DOS 3.1
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