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From: hoctor@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Fastback+ Auto Reformat
Message-ID: <7700050@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 21:15:00 GMT
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Nf-From: osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!hoctor    Jan 29 15:15:00 1988


Is there any way to write to formatted 360K disks in a 1.2Meg drive
using Fastback Plus?  We had the problem of moving some software from
an AT (no 360K drive) to a PC (two 360K drives).  I tried using disks
formatted by Fastback+ as 360K in the AT, but Fastback always reformatted
the disk to 1.2Meg, making the disk useless for my purpose.  

We solved the problem by backing up to a "STANDARD DOS DRIVE AND PATH"
with 360K disks in the AT, but this was SLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!  Is there
any way that I can turn off the Automatic Reformat and still use the
DMA capabilities of Fastback, or is what I want impossible?

Thanx,
hoctor@osiris