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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT formatting problem
Message-ID: <2501@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 10:59:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 10:59:08 1987
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In article <2598@husc6.UUCP> whitney@husc4.UUCP (glen whitney) writes:
>
>	Let me clarify my original posting.  My problem is as follows:
>When I boot up MS-DOS 3.2, and try to format a high-capacity disk in a high-
>capacity drive (a:) with 'format a:', DOS gets to the second head on cylinder
>0, then prints 'Parameters invalid;.  ... 
>Then I tried rebooting and using PC-DOS 3.1.
>Surprise, surprise, PC-DOS 3.1 formats with no problem. 

There is a bug in MS-DOS 3.2 that is apparently fixed in version 3.21.
We have had the same probem on a number of our machines we built up with
MS-DOS 3.2.  

Tom Almy
Tektronix, Inc.

(DOS 3.1 Forever!)