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Article #36467Re: Minix-ST floppy formats (was Re: Different Formats (was Re: I love it!))
From: Dave Ritchie
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 08:09
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 08:09
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The danger is that you may damage the drive mechanism in some cases by using more than 80 tracks. As far as extra sectors go, the problems occur when exchanging disks with different machines - some machines just can't read 11 sector per track disks. Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpldola!ritchie From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Minix-ST floppy formats (was Re: Different Formats (was Re: I love it!)) Message-ID: <11830034@hpldola.HP.COM> Date: 8 Feb 89 08:09:12 GMT References: <7367@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs Lines: 6