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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: larger density disks
Message-ID: <4263@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 90 00:09:41 GMT
References: <7929@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <243@imspw6.uunet.UUCP>
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <243@imspw6.uunet.UUCP> pryor@imspw6.UUCP (Paul Pryor) writes:
>So I tried 800fmt without using the supplied TSR program, and got a clean
>format, and DOS was able to read and write to the new format without
>difficulties. So I believe my BIOS (AWARD) does not have the bug.
>
>I was wondering if anyone who has 96 tpi drive could tell us if they
>also had to use TSR or not, and also to indicate their BIOS, and version,
>if possible.

Well, I started using 800kfmat with Phoenix BIOS 1.10, and I could read the
disks it formatted with no problems.  Norton Utilities still had some 
problems, but I still managed to look at clusters, etc.

Then I got an update to my BIOS to 1.10 10A, and now I can't read my disks
without the TSR.  Norton Utilities also barfs, and asks what kind of disk
it is (from the standard 360K 720K 1.2MB choices).

I always thought updates were for taking OUT bugs... :-)


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|    Randy Spangler                    |    The less things change, the    |
|    rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu    |    more they remain the same      |
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