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- Number: A2TH080290U248
- Subject: Using FORMAT Under DOS 4.0 and 5.0
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- GENERAL
- INFORMATION: A customer reported something he thought to be a hardware
- or NetWare shell problem. After some testing, the
- problem appears to be with DOS's implementation of the
- FORMAT.COM under DOS 4.0 and 5.0.
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- Here's what he saw and has been duplicated here:
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- Boot W/S to DOS 4.0, ipx, net4, f:, login......
- Network Search drive mapped to 4.0 DOS dir on F/S
- Sitting at F: drive
- Remove floppy from drive A:
- Type FORMAT A: <Return>
- DOS prompts with.... Insert new diskette for drive A:
- and press ENTER when ready...
- Insert diskette in drive A: and continue format
- After format completes give volume name or carriage return.
- Say "n" to Format another (Y/N)?n<Return>
- Returns to F: (no problem to this point)
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- Now, Remove diskette in drive A:
- At F: type FORMAT A:<Return>
- This time DOS errors...Not ready error reading drive A
- Abort, Retry, Fail?
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- DOS 5.0 does the same, DOS 3.3 doesn't require a
- formatted diskette to be in drive A: regardless of the
- number of times FORMAT is executed. DOS 4.0 and 5.0,
- for whatever reasons, require it after the first
- execution of FORMAT.
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- (X) This information was verified in the lab.
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