Re: Saving to Floppy Disk under OS/2

["'A. Joseph Ross'" lawyer@xxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> Pre-formatted for what machine? That's a red flag for me. If it's
> preformatted for VFAT (do Win95 floppies use VFAT? I forget), OS/2
> doesn't understand that. In ANY case, I'd reformat under OS/2 _on the
> machine that experiences the error_. Sometimes floppies read on one
> machine but not on another.

I assume that pre-formated disks are pre-formated for DOS. I haven't had
any trouble with any others, that much I know.

> Other possibilities: are you using a SCSI adaptor?

No.

> Another possibility is that it's a slow floppy drive, and for some reason
> (maybe a very fast CPU), OS/2 is timing out on reading it.

Again, I don't seem to have any other problems. The CPU is a 486-100.

> Try some of these things out. Good luck.

Thanks. I installed Fixpack 26 today, then shut down and went home. So
I'll have to see what happens tomorrow.

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