Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!kokody2
From: kokody2@hammer.me.toronto.edu ()
Date: Sun Oct 23 01:32:37 EDT 1988
Message-ID: <13038.1988Oct23.01:32:38@hammer.me.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems formating 3.5 inch floppies using MS-Dos.
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Keywords: 1.44 Mbyte 3.5 inch floppy drives


Fred Pinn (pinn@ttidca.TTI.COM) writes in <3322@ttidca.TTI.COM> that:
# 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)
#

I have installed a 1.44 Mbyte 3.5 inch floppy drive on my XT clone. I ended
up modyfing my config.sys as follows using MSDOS 3.3:

       drivparm=/d:1 /f:2 /h:2 /s:18 /t:80

When I format my b: drive (the 1.44 Mbyte 3.5 inch floppy) I then use
the following command:

       format b: /n:18 /t:80

and I obtain a 1.44 Mbyte floppy that has no problems at all. For formatting
the 720 kbyte floppies I just type the command:

       format b:

I hope this has been of some help. I found it took a little tinkering around
before I found this combo to work.

	Gerry Kokodyniak

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Gerry Kokodyniak, Ph.D. Student, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Toronto
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Gerry Kokodyniak, Ph.D. Student, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Toronto
USENET: kokody2@me.toronto.edu               Structural Integrity Fatigue and 
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