25 Oct
1999
25 Oct
'99
9:05 a.m.
> <Has anyone else run into trouble reading 8
sector disks under Win95? I trie
> <to read the IBM DOS 1.10 disk and just ran into the Abort, Retry, Ignore
> <error message. When I booted it up and copied it to another disk on the
> <Compaq luggable, everything worked out just fine.
> W9x driver assumes default formats. use a dos
box to copy the contents of
> the disk to a format the winbox knows. FYI: Don't bother win9x in dos mode
> as it's still the same drivers.
I was running in a DOS box when doing the above. Since
then, I made a
diskcopy on the Compaq and went back to try reading it under win95 with the
same results. My guess is that win9x no longer supports the 8 sector format,
but I don't for sure. I might add that I was doing this with a HD floppy
drive, but I wouldn't think that would affect the reading of the disk.
Well, it might still be true. I think I remember a lot of trouble,
back when HD Drives where introduced, about compatibility when
reading old stuff. Basicly, Win95 (tested on a 95a) should be
able at least to recognice the media format and react acordingly.
Gruss
H.
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