Need help with retrieving data from a DOS 2.11 formated

From: Gene Ehrich <gene_at_ehrich.com>
Date: Mon May 7 18:55:49 2001

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:
> >
> > --============_-1222849775==_ma============
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
> >
> > 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

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