4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Yep.  DOS had only one quirk, though:  If you wanted to format a 720K disk in a
> 1440K drive, you had to specifically tell DOS to format as 720K.  Otherwise, it
> assumes you're going for 1.4, attempts it, and fails.  You can choose /f:720
> with later versions of DOS; use "/t:80 /n:9" for 3.x.

/F:2 would also work for some versions.

With XP, /T:80/N:9 seems to be the only way that still works!