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From: ward@chinet.UUCP (ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2
Message-ID: <1453@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 00:38:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 00:38:12 1987
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Reply-To: ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen-)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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> It would not let me format a 720kb diskette to 1.44 Meg
  I think this was due to circumstances similar to those I've seen where
DOS keeps formatting a 360K diskette as if it were single sided.  Somehow
DOS gets "stuck" thinking the drive is single sided.  I'll bet that
if you bulk-erased the 720K diskette and tried again at 1.44, it would
work.  I'm NOT ADVOCATING this - just trying to convey the thought that
it was more "fluke" than "plan" that wouldn't let you format it. ...and
there were plenty of other replies indicating there's no sensor (sigh
again) to prevent formatting a 1M diskette to 1.4!.