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From: chung@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (L N Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 1.44M Drive Problem (repost)
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.112536.29997@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:25:36 GMT
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Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH
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Sorry to ask again, but our news system failed me again.


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 problem and best solution was?

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