19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
2:57 a.m.
From: "Fred Cisin"
<cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> 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.
/F:2 would also work for some versions.
With XP, /T:80/N:9 seems to be the only way that still works!