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From: jpollard@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XT with 1.44Mb floppy?
Summary: Try the "/T:80 and /n:9" of format
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Date: 21 Jun 91 00:10:55 GMT
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Simply, XT BIOS usually will not recogize the 1.44 Mb floppy and attempts
to format it as a 720 K disk. The drive senses that the disk is high 
density and then errors "invalid track 0." Try the following line:

format a: /t:80/n:9


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Jack Pollard, private citizen
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