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- From: psfales@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Peter Fales)
- Subject: Re: How to format 10 sectors per track?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:34:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.013420.27106@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
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- In article <BsrHI7.E16@cs.psu.edu> mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) writes:
- >
- > Help! I'm trying to write a utility to format disks for my EPS sampler. It
- >uses 10 sectors per track. I've tried BIOS 0x13 function 0x18 to set the media
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- To fit 10 sectors on a track, you have to reduce the size of the
- inter-record gaps. I know this is possible, because I have seen
- at least two packages (JFORMAT and MAXI-FORM) that will do this.
- However, the BIOS routines probably aren't smart enough for this, so
- you will need to go straight to the hardware. Find a a good book,
- and start playing. Good luck.
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