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From: hobbes@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Formating problem
Summary: Formating problem
Message-ID: <2175@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 May 89 09:47:32 GMT
Sender: Andrew Zimmerman <hobbes@Portia.stanford.edu>
Organization: Stanford University
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I am having a problem with the format command under DOS 3.30 on a
NCR PC-AT compatible.  Hopefully, someone on the net can help me.

When I try to format a 360K disk on the 1.2 Meg floppy drive, I get
the following

C>format a:/4
Parameters not supported by Drive
Format Failure

If I do a format without the /4, the NCR tries to format for a 720 disk.

The version of dos that I am using is the one that was supplied with
a machine that has a 3.5" 1.44 Meg drive.  (I was hoping to be able to
use the same version of dos on both machines.)
Thanks for any help.
Andrew
hobbes@portia.stanford.edu