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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: rawrite under OS/2??
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Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 06:51:11 GMT
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Will rawrite work in an OS/2 DOS session? I tried it, and I get the
usual prompts for filename, drive letter, and then the prompt to
insert the disk (which I have formatted to DOS FAT 1.44Meg).
rawrite then spits out:
Number of sectors per track for this disk is 18
Writing image to drive A:. Press ^C to abort.
Attempt to DMA across 64k boundary
That's it. The disk light shines for a bit (like 3 seconds) and the
disk I get is still readable by DOS's DIR command. :-(
If it turns out that I can't use rawrite from within OS/2, what are my
options? All I've got is an OS/2 HPFS partition to store the floppy
images on...
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