Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!bkliewer From: bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 feature vaporware? Message-ID: <7924@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 15 Apr 88 18:28:34 GMT References: <1104@neoucom.UUCP> Reply-To: bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 26 Keywords: %@^@$#^ In article <1104@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: >Note that IBM PS/2s have integral support for 1.44 meg, and don't >require DRIVER.SYS. I have a PS/2 model 80, and it insists on >formatting even 720K disks as 1.44 meg. Maybe it needs a DRIVER.SYS >running to go to the low density mode for formatting. The PS/2 >seems to correctly sense the density of disks that have already >been formatted some place else. By the way, for the record, I >don't recommend formatting 720K disks for 1.44 meg. > >Grrrrr. > >--Bill You can use options on with FORMAT for 720K diskettes. I don't have a DOS manual right here, but it's something like FORMAT /T:80 /N:9. I have a 1.44 Meg (using a driver from BASTECH since my BIOS is too old for even DRIVER.SYS), which is also set to D:. I use ASSIGN to set it to B which works for everything except FORMAT and CHKDSK (both 1.44 and 720 are addressable by either B: or D:. The only thing I really hate about this setup is that the Bastech driver is copy protected. If anybody out there has seen any non copy protected 3.5" drivers, please tell me by e-mail. It's the only copy protected software on my system and I want it off. Bradley Dyck Kliewer Hacking... bkliewer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu It's not just an adventure It's my job!