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From: huisjes@cs.vu.nl (Michiel Huisjes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: DEC Rainbow 100 disk formats
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Date: 8 Oct 89 11:40:53 GMT
Sender: huisjes@cs.vu.nl
Reply-To: huisjes@cs.vu.nl (Michiel Huisjes)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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A friend of mine just got hold of a DEC Rainbow 100 running MS-DOS 2.11 and
he's having troubles with disk formats. It seems that a DEC Rainbow formats
disks at 400K (how odd) and cannot read normal 360K type DOS disks.
Trying to read a 360K formatted disk gives the error message "non-DOS disk in
drive A:" and if I read a 400K formatted disk in my 386 high-density drive
it claims that the disk type is a single-sided double density 8 spt disk with
14K used somewhere in the middle (Norton utilities). 
What am I doing wrong? Is a DEC Rainbow really that incompatible and more
important, how do I transfer my software onto the DEC?

Answers will be greatly appreciated.
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			Michiel Huisjes.  (huisjes@cs.vu.nl)