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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-Forma
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:37:02 GMT
- Organization: CTS Network Services
- Message-ID: <648.6630T575T56@crash.cts.com>
- References: <31266C34.62D5@unet.univie.ac.at> <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com> <Dn4r2u.E6C@actrix.gen.nz>
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- On 21-Feb-96 19:32:54, Colin Palmer was reported to have said:
- >In article <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com>,
- >John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
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- >> Surfaces = 1
- >> BlocksPerTrack = 68
- >> Lowcyl = 0
- >> Highcyl = 2890
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- >These are wrong (HToolBox has a problem getting these right). If you
- >want to be able to use MS-DOS formatted disks (Highcyl-Lowcyl+1) *
- >Surfaces * BlocksPerTrack must equal 196608.
-
- Not true. The above works just fine with MS-DOS formatted disks. It works
- with the Tools disk the Zip drive came with and it has worked with every
- MSDOS pre-formatted Zip disk I have bought.
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- Phil
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- pwright@crash.cts.com
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