4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Jan 18 21:10:15 2005

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Yep. DOS had only one quirk, though: If you wanted to format a 720K disk in a
> 1440K drive, you had to specifically tell DOS to format as 720K. Otherwise, it
> assumes you're going for 1.4, attempts it, and fails. You can choose /f:720
> with later versions of DOS; use "/t:80 /n:9" for 3.x.

/F:2 would also work for some versions.

With XP, /T:80/N:9 seems to be the only way that still works!
Received on Tue Jan 18 2005 - 21:10:15 GMT