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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-Forma
- Message-ID: <DnHFs5.3q@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:57:40 GMT
- References: <31266C34.62D5@unet.univie.ac.at> <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com> <Dn4r2u.E6C@actrix.gen.nz> <648.6630T575T56@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <648.6630T575T56@crash.cts.com>,
- Phil Wright <pwright@crash.cts.com> wrote:
- >
- > 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:
- > >> Surfaces = 1
- > >> BlocksPerTrack = 68
- > >> Lowcyl = 0
- > >> Highcyl = 2890
- > >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.
-
- Well, you'll be able to read the disk fine (unlike AmigaDOS ones when you
- get the geometry wrong), but you'll only get 196558 blocks on the disk.
- Big deal, you might say, it's only 25k - and you're right, but if you use
- the disk on a PC and fill the disk up totally, you may find yourself
- unable to access the last 25k of your data when you use the disk with
- your Amiga.
-
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