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From: hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: XT-COPY command needed
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Date: 8 Sep 90 03:44:53 GMT
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Has anyone run across an XT-Copy program that can transfer a file from an
internal 386 clone hard disk to a "stiffy" disk (3.5in/90MM) that has been
formatted 80-tracks 720K (as one would commonly do for writing data from a
PC-AT on a 5.25in floppy to be read by a PC-XT)?  The Copy program in the
DOS2.0 we have seems to think that a stiffy drive is and ever always should
be formatted to 1.4 meg, bless its little blue heart.  It can write a small
BELCH.BAT file ok (684 bytes) but when it starts into the 328K BURPO.DAT
file, I get a "sector not found" error as it hits what is probably either
an unformatted track (interleave) or a track with an unexpectedly low (1/2)
number of sectors due to the low density in the formatting machine.  What's
the formatting machine?  Please don't ask, as I don't want to start a 1 Gig
comp.sys flame war...  Thanks in advance, as usual...
							Howard Hull
							hull@ncar.ucar.edu