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From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT
Message-ID: <455@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 02:28:35 GMT
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Since the subject of fdformat has arisen here, has anyone else had
any difficulty using it to format 1.2M diskettes in a 1.2M drive?
Nothing fancy, no special parameters or settings, just the plain
vanilla configuration.  Fdformat regularly gives me "sector not
found" messages, whether I am formatting a virgin disk or reformatting
one that had been formatted by another program earlier.  No problems
formatting 360k diskettes (and no problems formatting the latter to
720k in a 1.2M drive); the only problem is with formatting 1.2M
diskettes to 1.2M.

I sent an inquiry to the Bitnet address given in the documentation
file, but received no response.

Thanks,

David


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David J. Birnbaum         djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet]
                          djb@harvunxw.bitnet   [Bitnet]
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