17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
3:24 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
You don't really need a 3.5" 720K drive.
Unlike the 360K/1.2M situation
with 5.25-inch drives, the 1440K 3.5" drives can reliably read and write
720K diskettes.
Yep. DOS had only one quirk, though: If you wanted to format a 720K disk in a
1440K drive, you had to specifically tell DOS to format as 720K. Otherwise, it
assumes you're going for 1.4, attempts it, and fails. You can choose /f:720
with later versions of DOS; use "/t:80 /n:9" for 3.x.
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