Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

Hi Jayden, (please use SPACES after punctuation - I added them below already...) > Question about the way our new kernel will handle floppy disks. I recently Probably not a kernel issue and also, which "new kernel" do you mean? > got my hands on a lot of unopened micro floppy disks, with a 1

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

Question about the way our new kernel will handle floppy disks.I recently got my hands on a lot of unopened micro floppy disks,with a 1 MB storage capacity.When I ran FORMAT on one in FreeDOS,it threw an error.It cou;dn't be formatted with FAT,due to a "Bad track" and some other things.I am aware

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

Or ... FORMAT A: /F:720 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:51 AM Antony Gordon wrote: > CONFIG.SYS entry > DEVICE=[drive:][path]DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 > > may work > http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/driver.sys.htm > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:48 AM Antony Gordon

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

CONFIG.SYS entry DEVICE=[drive:][path]DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 may work http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/driver.sys.htm On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:48 AM Antony Gordon wrote: > Those are 720K floppy disks. 9 sectors/track 80 tracks double sided = > 737,280 bytes > > On

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

Hi Antony, > CONFIG.SYS entry > DEVICE=[drive:][path]DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:2 That would be for 720k A: drive hardware, I doubt that the user has such hardware. > may work > http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/driver.sys.htm It will not work because driver.sys does not even exist in

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

Those are 720K floppy disks. 9 sectors/track 80 tracks double sided = 737,280 bytes On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:15 AM JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU < jcharbonnea...@cpsge.org> wrote: > The disks are the size of a standard floppy but they are also double > sided. They are made by the company NASHUA,and the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Eric Auer wrote: >> got my hands on a lot of unopened micro floppy disks, with a 1 MB storage > > That is an unusual size for a floppy, I would say. How many inch? Prolly means unformatted 3.5" 720K disks, which are sold as "1 MB". -uso.