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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Received on Mon May 07 2001 - 19:13:28 BST