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From: burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: formatting 3.5' disks
Message-ID: <2236@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 88 16:14:17 GMT
References: <361@dcscg1.UUCP> <101000002@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Reply-To: burleigh@silver.UUCP (frank burleigh)
Organization: sociology, indiana university, bloomington
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In article <101000002@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) writes:
>
>otherwise.  To format a 720K disk in the PS/2 1.44M drive, you have to
>say FORMAT A: /N:9 (9 sectors per track instead of 18).  They even put
>a warning in the User's Guide telling you not to format a 720K disk in
>a 1.44M drive using FORMAT defaults, and not to format a 1.44M disk as
>720K using the /N:9 switch.  What this gets you is flexibility; you can

In PC/MS-DOS 3.3 the format command for a 720KB disk in a PS/2 or other
machine with a 1.44MB drive is

   FORMAT A: /N:9 /T:80

unless the hardware knows what sort of disk is in the drive, as Mr
Frolik says.  In DOS 4.0 they say you may use 720 on the format line to
get the correct formatting.

-- 
Frank Burleigh/ Dept. of Sociology/Indiana University, Bloomington, IN  47405
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