DOS 1.10

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Oct 23 15:15:58 1999

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <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.
Received on Sat Oct 23 1999 - 15:15:58 BST