Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!jimw
From: jimw@bucket.UUCP (Jim Willing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5 inch and 1.44 Meg
Message-ID: <881@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 18:24:25 GMT
References: <983@tjalk.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: jimw@bucket.UUCP (Jim Willing)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
Lines: 18
Keywords: 3.5 inch 1.44 Meg FORMAT.COM, doesn't work

In article <983@tjalk.cs.vu.nl> se6@cs.vu.nl (Houweling E) writes:
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>(YET ANOTHER) DISK PROBLEM
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>I've just installed a 3.5 inch, 1.44 Mb disk drive in a XT clone with DOS 3.2. 
>The drive works all right, but FORMAT.COM formats it at just 720 Kb and 
>refuses to give me the full 1.44 Meg capacity. (Yes, I used high-density disks)

Sad, but true.  To get 1.44mb storage requires a Dual-Rate controller.
XT & compatable systems (unless they are boosted QUITE a bit) can not
handle the higher xfer rate, and as such are only equipped with a "standard"
controller.

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