Re: formatting with 10 sectors under tos 1.4

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From: Mike Matthews
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 16:11

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In article <1940@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) writes:
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>For some strange reason I format disks with twisted 10-sector per track
>format and they work for a short time but then stop working.
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>-- 
>S. Alan Ezust                                   depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca
>McGill University Department of Computer Science - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I use 82 track/10 sectors-per-track disks with TOS 1.4 all the time, formatted
with DC Formatter 3.2 (I paid the shareware due; it should be identical for this
purpose to the latest PD version).  No problems.  Well, an occasional disk does
fail, but they do that.

Could be a whacky drive... (I know, something you really didn't want to hear)
Or you have some really bad disks.

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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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Subject: Re: formatting with 10 sectors under tos 1.4
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Date: 10 Jan 90 16:11:31 GMT
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