Re: [Freedos-user] floppy drive won't format disk...

2020-03-11 Thread michael
Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP... I wonder if ACPI is breaking Freedos 1.3 as well? BIOS SETUP UTILITY v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. AMIBIOS Version : 08.00.12 Build Date: 05/26/07 ID: J8472006 Under Advanced -> Floppy Configuration

[Freedos-user] floppy drive won't format disk...

2020-03-11 Thread michael
I'm running Freedos 1.3 RC2 installed from the live CD base system with sources. C:>format a: Insert new diskette for drive A: Press ENTER when the right disk is in drive... # Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted Using drive default: 1440k (Cyl=80 Head=2 Sec=18) Cannot find existing