shurr@cbnews.att.com (larry.a.shurr) (03/13/91)
In article <gah.668686484@valine> gah@hood.hood.caltech.edu (Glen Herrmannsfeldt) writes: >720k format is supported as of 3.2, I believe, but it is >supported as a 3.5 inch format. If you have a 720k 5.25inch >drive, connect it up, tell it it is a 3.5inch drive, and it >will work. That is, if your BIOS supports it. Actually, I wanted quad support on my HD drive. I thank all respondents. Two in particular referred me to the FDFORMAT program by Christoph H. Hochstatter (actually that's "a umlaut" - sorry Christoph, no support for that here) of Marburg, West Germany (hmmm... guess that's just "Germany," now). The current version is 16A and is available at simtel20 and it's mirrors as pd1:<msdos.dskutl>fdfrm16a.zip. Source code is included. The package consists of FDREAD, a little TSR (176 bytes) and an extended floppy disk formatter, FDFORMAT. With these, you can format, read, and write all manner of formats including my requested 720K. Other formats include 800K (DD with 10 sectors/track), 820K (as before with 82 tracks), 1.48M (HD 5.25, 18 sec/trk, 82 tracks), and 1.72M (HD 3.5, 21 sec/trk, 82 tracks). I know those extended formats push the specs, but they're there if you want them. As if that weren't enough. Christoph includes a TSR for XT's in case you have a machine without HD floppy disks. It supports only the formats of which DD hardware is capable. Plus there are utilities for reading and writing the boot sector along with a boot sector image for floppy disks which will boot from the hard disk. This allows you to leave a floppy disk in drive A and still boot from your hard disk. And there's even more (I feel like I'm in a Ronco commercial): WIMAGE, a utility which copies disk-image-to-file and disk-image-file-to-disk. I have tried FDREAD/FDFORMAT and so far it has worked fine. Thanks again, Larry -- Larry A. Shurr (cbnmva!las@att.ATT.COM or att!cbnmva!las) The end of the world has been delayed due to a shortage of trumpet players. (The above reflects my opinions, not those of AGS or AT&T, but you knew that.)
valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) (03/14/91)
shurr@cbnews.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes: >program by Christoph H. Hochstatter (actually that's "a umlaut" - sorry >Christoph, no support for that here) of Marburg, West Germany (hmmm... >guess that's just "Germany," now). The current version is 16A and is >available at simtel20 and it's mirrors as pd1:<msdos.dskutl>fdfrm16a.zip. >Source code is included. >The package consists of FDREAD, a little TSR (176 bytes) and an extended >floppy disk formatter, FDFORMAT. With these, you can format, read, and >write all manner of formats including my requested 720K. Other formats Is this thing aailable? Please post it somewhere. TIA.