Re: How to format 10 sectors per track?

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From: Jochen "Joscho" Schoof
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 10:09

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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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