ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (07/17/89)
Several days ago I reported the following problem: 720k 5.25 disks made on my Italian Stallion Att 6310 (AT Clone) under MSDOS or Xenix could not be read on a Zenith AT Clone (and presumably other AT clones). I found the solution on SIMTEL20. The latest version of fdformat (an excellent German program that will format to the physical limits of the drive and media) now contains a program fdread2.com. Run once, it kicks the Zenith in its privates, and once stunned, it reads my 720K disks. I will supply fdformat and my version of pdtar in response to mail requests to the address below. My pdtar supports **IX <==> MSDOS transfers with Xenix style partitioning. Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis 916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT]) 916-752-0776 secretary (bitnet) ehkinmonth@ucdavis.edu (uucp) ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck (telnet or 916-752-7920) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251] request ucdked, login as guest, no password