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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: larger density disks
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Date: 9 Feb 90 07:30:13 GMT
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In article <243@imspw6.uunet.UUCP>,
pryor@uunet.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.

My machine is an Epson Equity II+, which definitely insists on the
FDREAD TSR being installed. If not, I can list the directory OK, but
if I try to read or write a file, after a few sectors I get a
"sector not found" message. By the way, this is with disks formatted
to 82 tracks, 18 sectors per track.

As far as I know, the BIOS is Epson specific, though this may be
wrong

Richard Stanton