Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!ziggurat!pmwenzel From: pmwenzel@ziggurat.gg.caltech.edu (Pete Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Formatting a 1.44 MB disk to 720 kB...how? Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 00:07:34 GMT References: <1991May16.220514.23423@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 18 In <1991May16.220514.23423@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes: >Just that...how? For background, I have a 12MHz `286 box, which runs messdos >3.3 with 4dos. Drive A: is a high-density 5.25" floppy; drive B: is a high- >density 3.5" microfloppy. Can this be done? Am I staring right through the >answer, which is sitting right there in the doc.s for all to see? Actually, the answer is in 4dos' help screen. Hitting F1 and looking up FORMAT, I find that FORMAT B: /T:80 /N:9 does the trick. --Pete ____ ____ _/ \ Pete Wenzel - Caltech Computer Graphics Group / \_ / _ `--_ __ pmwenzel@smoggy.gg.caltech.edu _____--' _ \ | | \ ---\_/---\ home (818) 577-9005 ,_/------- / | | | |_/ ----------`-^-^\ lab (818) 397-2820 /^-^-^-'---------- \_| | \_ ___=============/ FAX (818) 793-9544 \===============___ _/ \____/ Mail Code 256-80, Pasadena, CA 91125 \____/