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From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2
Message-ID: <803@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 11:19:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: unccvax.803
Posted: Sun Aug 30 11:19:25 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 02:41:38 EDT
References: <1338@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <3735@well.UUCP> <1426@chinet.UUCP> <1453@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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Summary: mod 80 seems to know

In article <1453@chinet.UUCP>, ward@chinet.UUCP (ward) writes:
> 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

On the model 80 it seems to use the sensor... All of the brand new out of the
box 3M diskettes which we have that are 1Meg. Would not be allowed to format
to 1.44Meg. I mean that the system would not even turn the drive light on.
It would just flat out say, incompatable media.  When a true 2Meg. diskette
diskette was used, it came out fine, 80 tracks, 145xxxx bytes available.

/Carl
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