U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (CARDIOLOGY, R.M.H.) (11/21/90)
> In article <901115164154.HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET> HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET ("C.H. Hochstaetter") writes: >>To get FDFORMAT work on your XT, no FDREAD is neccessary. FDREAD is >>only required on AT class machines. Standard XT Controllers allow >>to read Disks with more than the standard sectors without a TSR. I had an IBM PC some time back that needed the TSR to access a ten sector per track disk. Unless the format of the disks has been changed, I presume this is still the case. I think the machine was running PC-DOS 3.2. Peter Summers (contributor to FDREAD).