-=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "SILICON CHIP ON LINE" on 05-27-04  04:06.....

 RJT> You *can* format a "1.44" as 1.2MB,  and it'll work if
the system is
 RJT> expecting such,  but things sure could get confusing if you try and put
 RJT> that into another drive or if the system isn't set up correctly.  Maybe
 RJT> I'll try it one of these days and see how well it works...

Hmmm... that's a realy odd size for a 3.5" disk. But I agree that
it should be possible to format one to that size.

 RJT> There isn't a 5.25" drive in there,  it doesn't do any hardware test, 
 RJT> and the default is apparently hard-coded into the BIOS.

One of these goldanged non-standard machines! I've had two of
them that eventually died on me and couldn't be repaired with
standard parts....

Hmmm... is it possible that someone replaced a 5-1/4 with the
3-1/2" drive at some time?

If there is no hardware test, and the disk size is hard-coded,
then that would explain a lot. Changing back to a 5-1/4" drive
would allow you to use 1.2m 5-1/4" floppies.

The *BIG* problem would be to find a 5-1/4" drive these days.

I guess it would be a lot easier to format a 3-1/2" disk to 1.2m.

Have you ever tried this? And does the machine accept such a
disk?

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