Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!amdahl!key!beep!kris From: kris@beep.UUCP (Port'naybl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Format problems Message-ID: <113@beep.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 90 06:43:46 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: The Three Gadgeteers Lines: 23 In article , elliott@aero.org (Kenneth B. Elliott III) writes: >Hopefully, someone out there has encountered and solved this problem. >I just purchased a Sony 3.5" 1.44 M drive (as a second drive) for my >AT clone (Bondwell--the ultimate clone machine). My first drive is a >5.25" 1.2 M drive. I've got a WD1003-WA2 controller. Once I finally >got it installed and set up as drive B:, I was able to copy to and >from it just fine. However, when I try to format it using Norton >Safe-format, it refuses, saying there's an error in the system area. >DOS normal format barfs over it also. Have you tried using "driver.sys" in your config.sys? Here is what I have on my XT clone's 3.5 inch floppy (720K). device=driver.sys /d:1 /c /f:2 /h:2 /s:9 /t:80. -- Port'naybl key!beep!kris woodowl!beep!kris "Look what they've done to my program, look what they've done to my code; They stuck it all on this floppy disk, and I think they got it wrong, ma..."