Subj : 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?
To   : Kris Steenhaut
From : Mike Luther
Date : Mon Mar 12 2001 08:55 am

What I want to know, Kris,

KS> No need to be.
KS>  IBM1flpy.add supports the genuine floppy 2.8 format,
KS> so bootos2 will use an entire 2.8 (on condition the
KS> bios supports that too ofcoz).
KS> Albeit, I never had an 2.8 floppy in my eyesight anywhere <G>.

KS> Incidentally, the 2.8 format is a life safer nevertheless. The eCS- GA
KS> will use two virtual 2.8 floppy formats in order to
KS> boot from a bootable CD. Apparently the only way to
KS> overcome the louzy OS/2 INSTALLER.

am I correct to remember that the common 1.44 MB drive can *READ* that disk as
well?  Are not some of the ffiles that are on the install disk actually in that
format?

I know that when you do a boot run from BOOTOS2 with the 2 disk option,whenever
the disk hits the IBM2FLPY.ADD driver in the load run, the whole disk operation
changes pitch, turns into a completely different kind of read.

In similar fashion, if my memory and ears are correct, OS2LDR also shifts into
this same different whine on access.  As well, when you make some off the
FIXPACK disks from the LOADSKF operation, you hear this same different ptich
floppy access mode.

Thus, to me, it seems that what I am hearing is a narrower read pattern going
on, indicative of something other than 1.44 MB operations.

Correct?


Mike @ 1:117/3001

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