peter@vd.volvo.se (Peter Hkansson) (10/30/89)
<Safety first at Volvo..> Sorry to repost but we seem to have some kind of censorship over here.. My original question was about formatting 720K 5 1/4 diskettes in a PC in a way that those diskettes are acceptable for use in a AT&T 3b2 system. DOS format does not work (the command works but the target system does not accept even the low-level format). Program exampel (MSC ASM) would be appreciated, komments about interleave intersector gap for 3b2 diskettes also.
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/30/89)
In article <168@volvo.vd.volvo.se>, peter@vd.volvo.se (Peter Hkansson) writes: | My original question was about formatting 720K 5 1/4 diskettes in a | PC in a way that those diskettes are acceptable for use in a AT&T 3b2 system. | | DOS format does not work (the command works but the target system does | not accept even the low-level format). If you have correctly installed DRIVER.SYS and formatted with the correct options on DOS format you will be able to generate a 720k floppy on an AT (1.2MB) type drive. Since various vendors hack their drivers and format commands I can't give you the correct incantation for YOUR machine. I have seen DOS gurus do this on Dell MS-DOS and PC-DOS with vendor supplied software, and have been able to read the disks as 720k on Xenix. Is the 3B2 format the same? The DOS stuff produces 80 tracks, 9 sectors of 512 bytes. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
mike@glisten.UUCP (Michael Wendel) (10/31/89)
In article <168@volvo.vd.volvo.se>, peter@vd.volvo.se (Peter Hkansson) writes: > My original question was about formatting 720K 5 1/4 diskettes in a > PC in a way that those diskettes are acceptable for use in a AT&T 3b2 system. Congruent Technologies in Richardson, TX has a software package that will allow a 3b2 to process the standard 360K DOS diskettes. I don't know what it costs, or how well it works. But I have used their memory products and the quality has been good. ========================================================================== Michael L. Wendel (602) 464-5744 /\ General Logistics International, Inc. /\\/ 1201 S. Alma School Rd., Suite 7550, Mesa, AZ 85202 \//\ ..!asuvax!mike or attmail!mwendel GLI \/