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- From: schoof@dec5.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof)
- Subject: Re: How to format 10 sectors per track?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.100936.21325@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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- Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:09:36 GMT
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- From article <92240.150513APPMS@CUNYVM.BITNET>, by Alexandre Pechtchanski <APPMS@CUNYVM.BITNET>:
- > You can also use shareware program 800.com (or ask it's author how he've
- > done it). The program should be in many ftp sites; it puts a patch to the
- > BIOS, which then enables flexible formatting (like 10s*43t on 360 kb
- > floppies). Unfortunately, it only works with MS-DOS 3.3+ and internal
- > drives.
- >
- > Happy hacking!
- > -------
- Another program with even better facilities is FDFormat v1.8, which is
- available from SIMTEL and its mirrors via anonymous ftp. It comes with
- sources in Turbo Pascal and offers lots of great formats (for example
- 1.72MB on 3.5" HD-disks). ATFMT100 offers a 1066KB-format for 3.5" DDs,
- but unfortunately includes no source code. Hope this did help you.
-
- Jochen
-
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