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sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:

>After seeing the chatter about FDFORMAT, I picked up v1.8 from (I
>think) a local BBS.  It works fine with 5.25" double-density
>disks...it formatted one of those to 800K with no problems.  It's also
>supposed to be able to format 5.25" high-density disks to 1.48 megs.
>However, the formatting process freezes early on whenever you try to
>put more than the usual 15 sectors per track on a disk.  (Yes, I am
>using real high-density disks.)

>System software: DR DOS 6.0.

  When you format more than 15 sectors per track, the inter sector
  gaps get too small for the disk drive to read the next sector in
  sequence ( resulting in another revolution), so FDFormat makes use
  of interleaving to create larger intersector 'gaps'. I'm using
  800K for any none standard disks (FDRead hangs my system (DOS5.0)
  when there's no disk in the floppy and I try to access it), FDFormat
  Didn't gave me ANY PROBLEMS, so I presume there's problems with
  DR-DOS6.0 & sector interleaving on floppies.


  Hendrik Visage