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From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Software)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Floppy formats under 386/ix
Summary: Interactive 2.2 has 720k 3.5/5.25 ok
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Date: 6 Jul 90 16:37:13 GMT
References: <830@mwtech.UUCP> <581@vidiot.UUCP> <1990Jul5.095106.6089@cti-software.nl>
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In article <1990Jul5.095106.6089@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>
>720K 5.25" is the standard format on AT&T 3B2's.
>I can read these floppies on a Xenix system
>and would like to be able to read them on a UNIX/386 system too.
>-- 
>Pim Zandbergen                            domain : pim@cti-software.nl

This flavor was standard on a number of early 80's machines (mostly ones you've
never heard of).  Interactive's 2.2 (but NOT 2.0.2) has a minor device for the
floppy which does 720K (80 tracks, 9 sectors, 2 heads) for 5.25" or 3.5".  The
`automatic format sensing' described in the manual does NOT work for this format.

I hope this is useful to somebody.

	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivor!gws)
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