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From: zanolla@motcid.UUCP (Donald J. Zanolla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Which DOS should I get? (again)
Keywords: DOS
Message-ID: <6798@clear19.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:18:47 GMT
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daver@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Ruby) writes:


>While we're on the subject of dosses (dosum, dosi?), 
>I have ms dos 3.2, which has served me fine, but now that
>I've upgraded from a 720k drive to a 1.4m drive on my 286, I can only format
>1.4m disks.  format /4 gives me "bad track 0" errors.  I'm 
>figuring that I need to upgrade to dos 3.3 at least.  Does this make
>sense?

>Does anybody know the differences between dos 3.2 and 3.3 (and how
>about 4.01?).  
>Does anybody have a history file of dos?  I'd be curious about the
>differences between the various dosses as they progressed from 1 to 5.

Part of your problem could be your BIOS chip.  I have a 286 and have been
told that if I want to go from 720k to 1.44m I must upgrade my BIOS chip.

I do not think you have to go to dos 3.3 .


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