This is something that should work. I will have to look into it and see why it doesn't work. I have a few ideas, but am working this weekend so may be a few days before I can look into it. I'm currently trying to track down an unrelated stack trashing issue in some kernel changes related to floppy drives that seem innocuous.
Jeremy On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:24 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems formatting a zero-filled 720K floppy in a 1.44M drive with > format 0.91v. I use the following command: > > format a: /f:720 > > Is this the right command to do it? Formatting a 720K disk in a 1.44M > drive should be possible? I also cannot format a wiped 360K disk in a 1.2M > drive. > > It seems to work if the disk already was formatted, probably because it > contains a valid BPB. Does not matter which kernel is used. It fails under > both FreeDOS and EDR kernels, albeit at a different code position. > > The details are at https://github.com/SvarDOS/edrdos/issues/105 > > Bernd > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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