Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?
To   : Mike Luther
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Tue Mar 06 2001 02:52 am

Hello Mike,

Monday 05 March 2001 13:16, Mike Luther wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

ML> One thing a great many of us have hit in the BOOTOS/2 and Create
ML> Utility Disk game is what to do with space for the later Adaptec SCSI
ML> drivers.  They eat up so much room that, either you have to hand
ML> modify Disk #1 of Create Utility Disk's operations, or, give up any
ML> combination of IDE and SCSI operations if you want to use BOOTOS2 any
ML> longer.

Why don't you use LxLite to compress them?

ML> What we need, somehow, if it can be done, maybe, is a way to use the
ML> standard 1.44 MB floppy to actually create 2.88 MB floppy disks!

I think that this ain't going to work. 1,4 MB floppies don't have the 
specifications to support the 2,8 MB format. The most you can put on 1,4 MB 
floppies is around 1,8 MB or maybe 2,0 MB, I believe.

ML> Apparently, if you actually do have a 2.88 MB floppy system, with the
ML> BIOS set so that it can see it, OS/2's Create Utility Disk game per
ML> FP15, as well as BOOTOS/2 can actually operate and use these disks.

Do you think this or have you read this somewhere?

ML> Some of us think the 1.44 MB floppy drives, can actually see these
ML> disks, a la the old INSTALL DISK and other IBM stuff early-on
ML> distributed.  After all, you can install OS/2 with these disks, even
ML> on a so-called 1.44MB floppy unit.  If you don't REFORMAT them, you
ML> can still, I think actually erase files and write others to them.

I don't think so.

ML> But once you re-format them to the 1.44 MB game, unless you have a
ML> true 2.88 MB unit, you can't use them that way again.

I'm skeptical about this with a true 2,8 MB floppy drive.

ML> Or would this be getting us into the same trouble as we used to get in
ML> by punching holes in the floppy disk plastic with a paper punch to
ML> make them Double Density disks?  Grin!

Oh, I remember those days!! ;-))


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

  email: e.thilleman@freeler.nl
         e.thilleman@hccnet.nl

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