Do you use MS-DOS format floppies?

[Mark A. Emanuele]

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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