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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Formatting 3.5" Diskette
Message-ID: <401@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 03:49:58 GMT
References: <20972@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <7509@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <7509@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
| 
| I believe that you have encountered a bug in all known versions of DOS
| FORMAT.  It doesn't check whether its buffers cross over a DMA boundary, and
| blindly uses them; this results in an error which makes FORMAT claim the
| disk is unusable.  The solution is to add or remove a TSR to shift the
| location in memory where FORMAT gets loaded.

  Did you miss the part where he said he didn't have the problem with
other brands of disk? I can't think of any way DMA would sense this...
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