7 May
2001
7 May
'01
11:55 a.m.
All the answers are at http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdosv.htm
2.11 did not have support for 3-1/2 drives
At 11:18 PM 5/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
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It sounds to me like it would be quite a non-standard format,
as I don't believe DOS 2.11 supports the 1.44meg format. Anyone
else?
Yes, that bothered me as well....
Also, most machines that run MS-DOS 2.11 are XTs. Which may well not
support high density drives at all (yes, I know there are high density
controllers for XT machines, but they're not that common).
I am wondering if this is a 1.44Mbyte disk at all. It might be formated
as a 720K disk. In which case a machine with a high density drive and
controller might get very confused.
Also, does MS-DOS 2.11 know about anything other than 360K disks? It
might only be using the first 40 cylinders of the disk (and %deity knows
what it's doing to the directory).
-tony