7 May
2001
7 May
'01
12:13 p.m.
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
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?
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).
MS-DOS 2.11 was the most customized of any version of DOS. It was the one
that MICROS~1 encouraged companies like Gavilan to use. In addition to
360K, many companies added other formats, such as 720K and even
8" DSDD! But I never saw anybody support the 1.4M until v3.30
Various versions of 2.11 would not always be usable on any computer other
than the one that they were customized for.
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