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From: chung@surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 1.44M drive question again
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.092218.4342@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Date: 1 Sep 90 09:22:18 GMT
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We installed a 1.44M drive in an *OLD* IBM 6MHz AT. It seem to read and write
the disk ok. But it won't format 720k disk. When we use "format b: /n:9 /t:80"
it just reply with parameter not supported error.

It this something to do IBM's ROM ? We use PC DOS ver 3.3.

Can someone remind me what the solution was?

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L.N. Chung			Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey,
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