USB floppy with non-standard format (such as 1680K)
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User	: Adam Peart
USB	: ECS External USB Floppy drive, U-Fdd, model # uf1
OS	: W2K

[ Original Email ]

To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] ODIN update comments.
From: Adam Peart <adam@capprogramming.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:01:23 -0400

At 01:32 AM 8/14/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:38:23 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi Paul,
>
> >I've had issues reading 1.68MB under windows on a USB floppy drive, it
> >always wants to format because it thinks it's unformatted.
>
>Which version of Windows are you using?
>
>I've tested it on Win98, WinNT4.0, Win2K and WinXP but I don't have
>USB floppy drive to test. We need somebody's help to test more
>non-standard format on USB drive.
>
>
>Rgds,
>Johnson.

Running format 91r in Win2K with a usb floppy drive, I formatted a disk 
fine, although on two disks in a row it said there were 3 bad sectors in 
the last 10% of the disk.  Took the disk to a computer w/ XP and saved a 
file to it, put it in the usb drive, and it shows the disk in use size 
increased, but show there are no files on it.  Put it in another 2k machine 
with internal drive, and it shows the file there.

ECS External USB Floppy drive, U-Fdd, model # uf1