Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!shelby!lindy!news
From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: larger density disks
Message-ID: <7929@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 90 21:53:03 GMT
Sender: news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service)
Distribution: usa
Lines: 25

In article <1097@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Wailin Through The Nets) writes:
>
>In article <7857@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>>In article <7057@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
>>sks@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dan Schikore) writes:
>>>I recently downloaded fdform15.arc from simtel20's <msdos.dskutl> directory.
>>I regularly use this program to format DS/DD disks to 800k and DS/HD
>>disks to 1.48Mb, and I have NEVER had any problems at all. It's a
>>great program.
>        Can you make the disks bootable?  I have a program called MAXI V1.51
>which formats 360K to 420K and have never had a problem with it.  The
>registered version allows you to make the disks bootable.

You can in principle use the DOS SYS command. However, most machines
require you to have the memory resident program FDREAD.EXE installed
before they will read the HD disks formatted with 18 sectors per
track, so if this is the case you won't be able to boot from this
disk.

In the case you mention, there should be no problem, as I don't
think the difference in formats would require the TSR, so you should
be able to boot from the disk OK.

Richard Stanton