Do you use MS-DOS format floppies?
Mark A. Emanuele
emanuele at overlf.UUCP
Sun Mar 17 07:11:23 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar15.001223.18393 at yenta.alb.nm.us>, dt at yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
> staffan at phos.serum.kodak.com (Kenneth Staffan (x37507)) writes:
>
> > [ his unix pc can't always read a perfectly good msdos disk ]
>
> metoo. If anyone has suggestions, please post. It's aggravating.
>
The problem may be because the unix-pc formats ms-dos floppies to 8
sectors/track and your IBM is formatting 9/tk. There is an option in dos
format to give you 8 sectors / track. This SHOULD solve the problem.
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Mark A. Emanuele
V.P. Engineering Overleaf, Inc.
218 Summit Ave Fords, NJ 08863
(908) 738-8486 emanuele at overlf.UUCP
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