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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: FDFORMAT/FDREAD for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.030839.2538@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Dec20.230820.2772@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:08:39 GMT
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- morro@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
- : Hello Everyone,
- :
- : Has anyone come across an OS/2 2.0 version of Christopher Hochstatter
- : excellent par of programs FDFORMAT/FDREAD ? These programs enable one to
- : format floppy diskettes to higher capacity (DS/DD to 830 K for example !)
- : on regular 1.2 M and 1.44 M drives. The latest version that I've seen is
- : 1.8 however, FDREAD does appear to run in any way shape or form under OS/2.
- : I've tried both full screen and windowed versions of both DOS and OS/2 with
- : the same result - some gibrish scrolling across the screen and not much
- : else. There are no error messages or anything, but I still can't read
- : the FDFORMATed diskettes. I am a bit desperate as I have a lot of these
- : 830 K and 1.77 M floppies but because I went to OS/2 and HPFS only system
- : I have no easy way of reading these. If anyone has a knowledge of newer
- : version of these programs or perhaps knows how to reach Mr. Hochstatter
- : himself (I would be willing to work on porting these to OS/2, if necessary),
- : I would very much appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance for
- : any and all help.
- :
- : Best Regards to All,
- : John Duchowski
-
- You don't actually need to run fdread to read the disks - most hardware
- configurations will read/write them. Formatting seems to be a different
- matter - my hardware reads/writes to them, and will even format one 3.5
- to 1.72 Meg. BUT if I try to format after that, the program seems to think I
- have a 720 K drive ! Yowzers.
-
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-