Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies

2021-03-24 Thread rkeys
TNX! Bob -From: "Eric Auer" To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday March 24 2021 9:16:14PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies To low level format a floppy, use the /U option. You can combine it with the /D

Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies

2021-03-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bob, > I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are > starting to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to > revitalize them. But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do > anything but reformat the directory area. Can a full low-level format > of

Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies

2021-03-24 Thread rkeys
Hi All: I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are starting to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to revitalize them. But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do anything but reformat the directory area. Can a full low-level format of 1440k floppies

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-24 Thread Jim Hall
Eric sent this to me off-list, but this seems like it should be part of the discussion. >From a license standpoint, the Crynwr package drivers should already be under an open source license. I think we already include them. I don't know of other open source network drivers .. if you know of any,