Re: 1.44 floppies are really 1.64

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From: John Gotts
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00

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On 20 Aug 1996 00:09:16 GMT, Daniel Collins <daniel@lisp.com.au> wrote:

>So, don't short-change yourself with floppy space in Linux.

From the man page for superformat (part of fdutils):

       superformat -s24 -t83
              Format a 1992K disk in drive 0 (83 tracks times  24
              "sectors").   There  won't  be 24 physical 512-byte
              sectors on the disk, but rather one 8192-byte  sec-
              tor  and a 4096-byte sector.  superformat will fig-
              ure out that this is the only  format  which  fits,
              with  that many "sectors".  24 sectors is the abso-
              lute maximum, and might not work everywhere.

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John GOTTS <jgotts@engin.umich.edu> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts
  Intern, Powertrain Control Systems, Scientific Research Labs, Ford Motor Co.

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