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>It worked for me every time on 4 different computers and floppy's.  Have
>you cleaned your drives lately?

below is my reply to sindi which fits both of your responses - except name
changed ~>

as you will see if you read what ive written in my earlier messages i have
tried several machines with several disks and i really cannot see that a
mixture of quality, clean, standard floppy drives as well as two LS120
drives that are laser guided (of course) and able to write correctly to
120mb superdisks, could all fail to perform properly.. what i do find
strange though is that no one so far seems to want to address themselves to
the fact (only revealed to me after doing a google search - including the
dreaded microsoft.com even..) that a dos formatted floppy does NOT have more
than 1457664 bytes free space available because of the space used by the
boot sector, the two file allocation tables and the root directory. it would
seem as though if you want access to the full 1474560 bytes then you cant
have any of the above system related areas working!

david, is that not so?

cordialement - peter (unixish)

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