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Article #36311Re: I love it! (formatting questions)
From: Bob BobR Retelle
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 23:32
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1989 23:32
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Concerning the use of "Twisted" formats, the only "danger" that might be involved is that the original release of the "Twister Formatter" that came with STart magazine had a bug in it that could cause the ST to not recognize that you'd changed the disk, and could possibly cause data to be overwritten on the disk you'd inserted in the drive... This has been fixed, and Twister is now extremely reliable. In fact, the "Mega ROMs" use a "Twisted" formatting scheme to speed up disk access... The comparison to the sector layout of the 8-bit drives was correct.. essentially this is all that the "Twister Format" consists of. " BobR
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BobR From: BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: I love it! (formatting questions) Message-ID: <14126@cup.portal.com> Date: 31 Jan 89 23:32:12 GMT References: <7367@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <706@stag.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13