How to format 10 sectors per track?

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From: Michael Chen
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 09:39

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   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
to 720K (it won't accept it if I ask for 10 per track in this call), and then
copying and installing my own disk paramter table, with the "sectors per track"
entry changed to 10.
   Doing this almost works, but there are no sector 0s anywhere on the disk.
I checked my code to make sure 0 was in the format table, and it is, so I'm at
a complete loss.
   Suggestions?  Someone who knows how to do this?

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