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From: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: high capacity floppies
Keywords: floppy, format
Message-ID: <7979@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 89 18:33:33 GMT
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In article <8606@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> ddurbin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Daniel A. Durbin) writes:
>In article <7923@xanth.cs.odu.edu> rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey) writes:
>>In article <1043@noao.UUCP> cole@noao.edu (Lonnie Cole) writes:
>>>
>>>I am looking for sources, binaries, info, etc for any device drivers/programs
>>>which will allow MS-DOS to format/read/write standard double sided/double
>>>density floppies on a High density drive but to a higher capacity than the
>>>normal 360k format. 
>>
>>What you need is a shareware program called COMFMT.
>
>	Also available is a non-tsr program called 800KFMAT written by
>	Allan Jones.  It works quite well and seems to be reliable.
>
I would be curious to know what machines/dos version that 800KFMAT will
work on.  I tried it on three different PCs (UNISYS 386, Honeywell AP,
and Zenith) without success. The format program seems to work fine, but
none of the machines will recognize the 800K format either with or
without the 800K driver program.

On the other hand, CONFMT will format diskettes that I can read on ALL
of the PCs (as long as they are using DOS 3.3). And no driver is needed!