How to format 360KB 3.5" disk on AT compat???

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From: Dzung Hoang
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 05:07

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    I have an AT compatible with a 720KB 3.5" floppy as drive B and would
like to format diskettes for use on an Atari 520 ST with a 360KB 3.5" floppy.
The ST's drive is SS/DD while the AT's drive is DS/DD.  MS-DOS v3.30 does
not allow me to format a 3.5" disk single-sided.  Is there a PD format
that would allow me to format a single-sided disk?  If not, can someone
supply me with the correct parameters for formatting the disk single-sided
so that I can attempt to modify an 800K format program (800KFMAT) to do the
trick.
    Has any ST user accomplished this on any IBM compatible???

Dzung Hoang
hoang@comus.cs.tulane.edu
tulane!comus!hoang

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From: hoang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Dzung Hoang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How to format 360KB 3.5" disk on AT compat???
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Date: 11 Jul 89 05:07:27 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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