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From: ddurbin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Daniel A. Durbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: high capacity floppies
Keywords: floppy, format
Message-ID: <8887@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 89 00:58:32 GMT
References: <1043@noao.UUCP> <7923@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <8606@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <7979@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: ddurbin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Daniel A. Durbin)
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>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.
>
	800kfmat works ok on my ATIGA1000 286 At Clone using MS DOS 3.2
	I haven't tried the program on other machines and don't know what
	it was originally written on/for, but the author mentions something
	about some BIOS having trouble with single/double stepping.