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From: bote@csense.UUCP (John Boteler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 720k 5.25 disks
Message-ID: <315@csense.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 02:49:32 GMT
References: <26422@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Common Sense Computing, McLean Va
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From article <26422@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth):
> In article <196500030@trsvax> uhclem@trsvax.UUCP writes:
> 
> [long and complicated discussion of how/why 720/5.25 disks would not
> work on an AT clone.]
> 
>>done.  Under XENIX, you should be able to force recognition by using the
>>appropriate dev, that is if the XENIX floppy driver was written properly.
>>I haven't tried this with the "real" SCO XENIX floppy driver.
> 
> The real Xenix driver works fine. You make the appropriate /dev entry,
> and add to the /etc/default/tar and /etc/default/msdos entries and away
> you go.

Has anybody suggested using the following DOS command:

format [d:] /n:9 /t:80

this will format the diskette to 9 sectors * 80 cylinders * 2 heads/cylinder *
512 bytes/sector = 737280 bytes.

This assumes your hardware supports it. You only mentioned a
Zenith AT clone, but this does not automatically mean that you have
a high capacity drive.

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