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From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2
Message-ID: <797@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 19:21:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: unccvax.797
Posted: Thu Aug 20 19:21:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 12:40:56 EDT
References: <1338@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <3735@well.UUCP> <1426@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Lines: 19
Summary: bug in 3.3

In article <1426@chinet.UUCP>, ward@chinet.UUCP (ward) writes:
> a PS/2-50!  I fully expected the "density identification hole" on the
> 2M diskettes to be read by the drive, but, sigh, no.


It will.  Try this. place the format program in a different directory
on the hard disk and have a path to THAT directory.  Next, go into a
different directory on C: and put a diskette into A:.  Next type format a:

You will find that now, DOS 3.3 is smart enough to use the hardware
to check to see if the diskette is actually a 2M diskette.

I had the same thing happen to me when I tried the format program from
drive C: when I was in the same directory as format.com..  It DID let
me format a 720 to 1.44Meg....  When I changed directorys, no matter
what I tried, It would not let me format a 720kb diskette to 1.44 Meg.

/Carl
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