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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using 8 inch floppies on an AT compatible
Message-ID: <7295@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 09:02:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7295
Posted: Thu Sep 10 09:02:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 10:22:53 EDT
References: <2211@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <777@custom.UUCP> <2899@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2899@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes:

|   Doesn't MS-DOS support 8 inch formats?  I have a Microsoft
|2.0 MS-DOS Programmers manual and they spec several 8 inch
|formats as being standard.  Do you really need to create a
|driver for 8 inch?

There are formats defined, and some systems support 8" disks. I use
PC-PRO (PCDOS for CompuPRO computers). I'm pretty happy with the setup.
I have upgraded my old "War Games" S100 to Z80, 8088, 80286, and there
is now an 80386 board available, although after the first 4MB of memory
you have to use the 16 bit bus.

I agree that the signals on an AT controller should run an 8" drive. The
device driver for "driver.sys" should be able to be configured to handle
the format physically, but I don't know if the logical format tables for
PC-DOS include the 8" versions.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me