Re: DOS installation proggy

From: Karl-Heinz Zimmer (khz@stardivision.de)
Date: Thu Jan 21 1999 - 14:35:18 CET


Andrea Manzini wrote:

> Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:

> > What about that?
> >
> > It would require not more than a slight modification of mu and the
> > creation of a DOS superformating tool based on the original sources.

> you'll also need to port to msdos the linux floppy driver source,
> to bypass the BIOS limitations of pc that cannot superformat in dos...

It this really true, have you exact information concerning this?

Is the BIOS truly unable to format 1722K Disks or might it be possible
to adjust the drive parameter table and then call the BIOS format
interrupt?

Karl-Heinz



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