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From:	"Michal H. Tyc" <mhtyc AT if DOT pwr DOT wroc DOT pl>
Organization:	Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:52:33 +0100
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To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Bugs in DR-DOS 7.03
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Hi all,

I have also some fresh experience with diskette OEM labels under
Windows.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:43:56 +0100, Matthias Paul wrote:

> On 2002-01-10, Joe da Silva wrote:

>> However, I had never noticed this before, because the diskettes
>> continue to work properly and never produces "read error" or
>> "floppy not formatted" messages.

> The correct OEM format is "xxxxxy.y", that is "DRDOS7.0" would be
> fine, but not "DRDOS 7.". But reading the high "7.0" version number
> might confuse Windows as well. Since the DR-DOS BPB matches those
> of PC DOS 3.3, the OEM string should really be "IBM  3.3", just as
> it has been in older issues of DR DOS.

> This should fix the problem. Formatting the floppy under MS-DOS
> should also fix the problem. Does it?

From my experiences (Win 98 SE, Award BIOS), Windows overwrite
OEM label with "*****IHC" not only on DR-DOS formatted diskettes
("DRDOS  7"), but also on (at least some) new factory-formatted
diskettes ("IBM  3.3").
After the OEM label gets garbaged, the diskettes continue to
work properly in Windows DOS box in most cases (but yesterday,
in fact, I got read error for the first(?) time).
I don't understand it at all.

Michal

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