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From: goldfish@concour.CS.Concordia.CA (Paul Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: No luck with FDFORMAT
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Date: 18 Apr 89 16:28:14 GMT
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In article <1322@hounx.ATT.COM> marty1@hounx.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
> But MAXI won't format a 420K floppy at all.  I can format 720K or 800K

Try setting the turbo switch off.  My XT-clone will read with SMAX loaded, but 
it will format ONLY when at 5 Mhz. (running the formater at 5Mhz is a no-cost
option) 

-Goldfish