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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!wupost!gumby!yale!admiral!plek
From: plek@admiral.uucp (peter eriksson)
Subject: 3.5" boot disk?
Reply-To: plek@admiral.uucp (peter eriksson)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:16:12 GMT
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Sender: waffle@admiral.uucp (Waffle BBS User)
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You cat format a 3.5" disc to 1.2 MB, i don't know the reason. But
you can fool MSDOS format to think that the 3.5" disk driver is a
5 1/4 disc driver. Then you can use FORMAT A: /f: 1.2 .
(this can be a problem on some disc).

HOW DO I DO ?
        You must go to the SETUP program and here change the 
        parameters for driver A to 1.2 MB.
     (don't forgott to rechange the SETUP).

ps: to do this you need 2 disk drivers, A - 1.44,  B - 1.2 MB.

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