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From: U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (CARDIOLOGY, R.M.H.)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT16, FDREAD and XTs
Message-ID: <1328@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 20 Nov 90 23:23:10 GMT
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> In article <901115164154.HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET> HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET
("C.H. Hochstaetter") writes:

>>To get FDFORMAT work on your XT, no FDREAD is neccessary. FDREAD is
>>only required on AT class machines. Standard XT Controllers allow
>>to read Disks with more than the standard sectors without a TSR.

I had an IBM PC some time back that needed the TSR to access a ten sector per
track disk.  Unless the format of the disks has been changed, I presume this is
still the case.  I think the machine was running PC-DOS 3.2.

Peter Summers (contributor to FDREAD).