Formatting non-standard disks?

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From: Michael Chen
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:22

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  Anyone have source code (or at least information) on formatting non-standard
disk sizes on the PC?  I have code that seems to work on machines slower than
a 486/33 for 10 sectors per track (800K).  I'm wondering if anyone knows how
to do 20 instead of 18 on a high-density disk.  I don't care about setting up
the FAT or any of that; I just need it to be formatted so the BIOS routines
can find all 20 sectors.

-- Mike 
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