Formatting question (too good to be true)

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From: David Arasmith
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 14:24

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A strange thing happened to me this morning.  I put a DS/DD 5.25" floppy
in the drive to format (1.2M drive).  When the formatting was done I was told
(well you know what I mean) that the floppy was formatted to 1.2M?  This
is NOT a high density disk (Nashua).  So is:

	1) the system lying to me about the capacity?
	2) the floppy actually formatted to 1.2M?
	3) the question way too stupid to answer?

Some explanation:  I am a Unix dude trying to survive my first 48 hours as
a DOS owner (I can't afford Unix on this new machine yet).  I did copy a
file to the floppy and then did a dir to see how many bytes were free.  This
seemed to reinforce the greater capacity.  

Thanks for your patience.  You can post replies but email will get to me much
quicker (I'm a little busy and this group has LOTS of reading required).
-- 
David M. Arasmith   |  arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu	        Internet
Emory University    |  {sun!sunatl,gatech}!emory!arasmith	UUCP
Dept of Math and CS |  
Atlanta, GA 30322   |  I should be working!  Gee....I wonder what's on TV?

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Date: 12 Jan 90 14:24:51 GMT
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