dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) (02/16/88)
In article <207@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes: > I have a 3.5" 720K on my XT clone (put it there last fall) and I seem to > recall that FORMAT B: would produce but 360K (no banging). I believe > I had to format it as F: (I have 2 HDs and a ramdisk for C:, D:, E:) to get > 720K. Actually, I now use PCTools formatter and that works on B: directly. I wonder if a different BIOS might help. I've got an Ultra-Comp 10MHz XT clone with only a single 3.5" drive, and am having the same problem as you. FORMAT A: (or B:, doesn't matter) produces the most wonderful 360K disk with no banging, but nothing more. I can even get a 180K disk if I ask nicely (with the /1 option). I am also running with an ERSO BIOS, version 2.39 of 1986. This is REAL fishy to me, noting previous comments about funky behavior using "old" versions of ERSO, and I begin to wonder if mine is "new" or "old", and if switchng to another version (or brand) might help things. -- David P. Zimmerman, Rutgers University Center for Computer and Info Services Internet: dpz@rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!dpz Bitnet: zimmerman@zodiac