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Article #2823Re: Floppy disks on 520ST
From: Arto Huuhilo
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 15:53
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 15:53
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stevens@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Francis Stevens) writes: >With all the PD disk formatters available which enable you to format >a floppy in a non-standard way (i.e. 10 sectors per track, 84 tracks per >side) which gives more than 720K per drive, does anyone have any advice >or warnings about doing this ? An extra 80K or so per disk seems a good idea >but they must have settled on 720K for a reason (?). Any comments ? Most disk manufacturers test their disk according to the IBM standard (i.e 80 tracks/720 kbytes). So the tracks 81-84 may not be reliable. Anyhow, I have used those formatter programs and problems have occurred only with cheap nameless disks. There have been no problems with Basf, Sony and TDK disks to name but a few. -- Arto Huuhilo Internet : huuhilo@kannel.lut.fi huuhilo@kuula.lut.fi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!kannel!huuhilo From: huuhilo@kannel.lut.fi (Arto Huuhilo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Floppy disks on 520ST Keywords: floppy disk format Message-ID: <494@kannel.lut.fi> Date: 3 Aug 89 15:53:47 GMT References: <955@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 19