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From: pinn@ttidca.TTI.COM (Fred Pinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problems formating 3.5 inch floppies using MS-Dos.
Message-ID: <3322@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 88 23:33:27 GMT
Reply-To: pinn@ttidca.tti.com (Fred Pinn)
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Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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    I have been trying to format a 3.5 inch DD floppy disk on some of 
    the machines at work and have been experiencing some difficulties.

    The drives are high density drives, capable of writing 1.4 Meg..
    The drives have been configured in config.sys as follows:
      device=driver.sys /d:1 /f:7 /c /h:2 /s:9 /t:80  (for MS-DOS 3.3) and 
      device=driver.sys /d:1 /f:2 /c /h:2 /s:9 /t:80  (for MS-DOS 3.2)

    The format program formats the DD floppies as 720K media, as I wanted;
    however, the FATs are overlapping each other and the root directory.
    CHKDSK complains, and when serviced with the /F option, the root  
    directory is garbaged.

    I tried this on several machines, all using MS-DOS 3.2 and 3.3.
    Using IBM DOS 3.2, the floppies format fine.  I feel that this is a
    MS-DOS format.com problem.  Has anyone else experienced difficulties? 

        Fred A. Pinn c/o Citicorp-TTI
        3100 Ocean Park Blvd.
	Santa Monica, CA        90405