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- From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
- Message-ID: <11497@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:20:34 GMT
- References: <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec18.214245.3365@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In article <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
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- >Everytime I go to my DOS 5.0 partition (via Boot Manager) and format
- >a disk using DOS 5.0 (format a: /f:1440 /u) it works fine. Then when
- >I try to dir the disk I just formatted, I get a general failure reading
- >drive A: error. But if I go to OS/2 and try to read the same disk, it
- >works fine. OS/2 can read and write to these disks no problem but DOS
- >can't!!! DOS always gives the general failure error when OS/2 reads
- >them.
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- It might pay to check your bios/CMOS settings.
- I had a similar problem (but with my 5 1/4" drive) when I switched
- the cables around to make my 1.44M drive A: but didn't change
- the CMOS settings. OS/2 might not have a problem because it
- doesn't use the bios directly. Just a thought.
-
- Paul.
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