Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?
To   : Mike Luther
From : Kris Steenhaut
Date : Thu Mar 15 2001 03:00 am

   Dag Mike,
dinsdag 13 maart 2001 17.01, Bericht van Mike Luther aan Tobias Ernst:


 ML> The ... somehow, can we, somehow format floppy disks in the XDFormat
 ML> mode which will let us still have two disk BOOTOS2 disks?

You are longing for the impossible. You can't boot fron an xdf formatted 
floppy, for two good reasons:

1.  a. Plain Dos doesn't support XDF natively, so the story ends already here. 
(Dos only can read xdf formats when the system files are in memory already).
    b. In OS/2 prior to the boot, xdfflpy.add should be loaded in memory, which 
is also a mission impossible as you well are aware of.

2. xdf formatted floppies are *read only*. Even at a minimal boot the os has to 
write some minimal temp files to disk (even when the tempfile is zero in size).

So, save some of your own precious time and forget about it.
Bottom line: the xdf format wasn't one of Big Blue's brightest ideas.



    Groeten uit Gent,

      Kris

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