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- 1.88 Mb floppy disk driver/formatter
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- Version 1.11a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- Written by: Stanimir Georgiev Boychev
- All rights reserved!
-
- These programs are "shareware" (look at the explanation below)
-
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- Description of OS2_188.EXE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This is a DOS device driver working with 1.88 Mb 3.5" HD floppy disks.
- It works on AT 286 or higher computers. There should be a 1.44Mb floppy disk
- drive. The driver automatically recognizes it and works with it. Put
- "device=os2_188.exe" statement in your CONFIG.SYS. When you boot the system
- driver displays the physical and the logical drive that will be used
- (note for dummies: logical drives are A:, B:, C: etc., physical are - 0, 1,
- 128, 129).
- OS2_188.EXE accepts the following parameters:
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- /r:# - retry count (values in range 0..9)
- /d:# - explicitly sets the desired floppy drive
- /n - driver doesn't intercept int 13h (don't use this with
- Norton Utilities)
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- Example: device=c:\188\os2_188.exe /d:1 /r:6
-
- Attention: Driver will not check if your computer is AT 286. If you start
- it on a XT it will probably hang.
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- Description of F188O.EXE
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- This is a formatter for 1.88 Mb floppy disks. It's for AT 286 and higher.
- 1.44 Mb floppy drive is automatically recognized and the disk in it is
- formatted. F188O accepts the following parameters:
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- ? - displays help message
- f - plain formatting without verify (use it on high quality disks and
- drives)
- r:# - retry count (default 2)
- d:# - explicitly chooses the floppy drive
- t:# - track count ( <=82, default 80 )
- v:lbl - sets volume label of disk
- p - patches disks formatted with version 1.10b. After the operation
- they will be readable under OS/2 Warp 3. (This operation doesn't
- destroy the data on disks)
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- Example: f188o r:1 d:1 v:Disk_1
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- The 1.88 Mb format is compatible with OS/2 Warp 3.0 XDF format
- when the tracks are 80.
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- Information about 1.88 Mb disk format
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- The format of diskette is:
- - Physical: 80 tracks, 2 sides, 23 sectors per track
- - Logical: 1 boot sector, two copies of FAT, 11 sectors
- 224 entries in root directory (14 sectors)
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- As you can see the diskette is formatted with 23 sectors per track which is
- with 2 sectors more than the number provided by FDFormat. 1.88 Mb format
- reaches the maximal quantity information which can be written on 3.5" HD disk.
- Formatter verifies the disk for errors and is quite good in this. FDFormat
- users please note the following: Although the FDFormat states that it verifies
- disk it performes only write operation, which allows to catch only errors
- of type 'Sector not found', errors of type 'Data error' are not detected.
- F188O does not suffer from this kind of trouble -> it's safe enough!
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- This program is my original product. Please let me know if you got any
- problem while using it, I will eventually solve them in future versions.
- I would gladly listen to your opinions and ideas for future development of
- program.
-
- OS2_188.EXE and F188O.EXE are compatible and work great with the following
- software:
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- MS-DOS 5.0
- MS-DOS 6.2
- +ChkDsk
- +DoubleSpace
- +ScanDisk
- +MSBackup
- +Defrag
- +MemMaker
- +SmartDrv
- Windows 3.1
- Norton Utilities
- +NDD
- +DiskEdit
- +SpeeDisk
- +NCache2
- Norton Backup
- ARJ 2.41a, PKZIP 2.04g, UC2 R2, RAR (and many other archivers),
- Stacker 4.0
- OS/2 Warp 3 XDF 1.88 format
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- The compatibility with these programs was checked by me. Probably the list
- is much bigger: Let me know the programs driver/formatter are (aren't) working
- with.
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- Shareware agreement
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- You can freely distribute this program if you don't change it in any way,
- don't change the name of the author and copy the following files:
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- OS2_188.EXE
- F188O.EXE
- 188E.DOC
- 188B.DOC
- WHAT'S.NEW
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- The author is not liable for any harm which this program might cause to you,
- or you think it have caused to you. Use it at your own risk.
-
- And after all: Using of this program is legal for 30 days period since
- the moment of receiving it. If you like the program and you want to continue
- using it you should pay a small fee to the author. For personal use the fee
- is $2, for busyness and government use the fee is $7. All European
- currencies are accepted (plus USD of course). The fee should be paid for
- every computer on which you are using the program. There is NO code in
- program which could ruin your life after the 30 day. Author is counting on
- your honour. Prove that the shareware is working well.
-
- Don't forget that the breaking of any of these conditions is a violation
- of copyright laws all over the world!
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- How to contact the author:
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- Stanimir Georgiev Boychev
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- fidonet address 2:35/27.6
- FidoClassic address 2:3500/66
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- Mailing Addresses:
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- Bulgaria
- Sofia, kv. "Musagenica"
- bl. 101, vh. G, ap. 69
- sem. Monevi, Stanimir Boychev
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- voice phone: 359-2-71-99-88
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- Bulgaria
- Stara Zagora
- ul. "Irechek" 42
- Stanimir Boychev
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- voice phone: 359-42-2-76-89
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