Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!dsacg1!nts0699
From: nts0699@dsacg1.UUCP (Gene McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC-DOS 3.3 FORMAT bug?
Message-ID: <336@dsacg1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 14:17:36 GMT
References: <36300010@iuvax>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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in article <36300010@iuvax>, bose@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu says:
> Nf-ID: #R:silver.bacs.indiana.edu:777:iuvax:36300010:000:110
> Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!bose    Feb  5 10:21:00 1988
> 
> 
> I have noticed the same problem except it occurs only when you
> try and format a 720K disk in a 1.44Meg drive.

	This was also written up in a very recent PC Tech Journal
	(I think). The word on 3.5" disks is "don't use 720K disks
	in an attempt to get 1.44M". Doesn't seem to be a good way
	to 'cheap' our way around the 3.5", high density diskettes.

	Gene
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