hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) (09/08/90)
Has anyone run across an XT-Copy program that can transfer a file from an internal 386 clone hard disk to a "stiffy" disk (3.5in/90MM) that has been formatted 80-tracks 720K (as one would commonly do for writing data from a PC-AT on a 5.25in floppy to be read by a PC-XT)? The Copy program in the DOS2.0 we have seems to think that a stiffy drive is and ever always should be formatted to 1.4 meg, bless its little blue heart. It can write a small BELCH.BAT file ok (684 bytes) but when it starts into the 328K BURPO.DAT file, I get a "sector not found" error as it hits what is probably either an unformatted track (interleave) or a track with an unexpectedly low (1/2) number of sectors due to the low density in the formatting machine. What's the formatting machine? Please don't ask, as I don't want to start a 1 Gig comp.sys flame war... Thanks in advance, as usual... Howard Hull hull@ncar.ucar.edu