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From: kevin@neptune.AMD.COM (Kevin Tomasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: fastback, 1.2m floppies
Keywords: fastback, 1.2m floppies
Message-ID: <1027@neptune.AMD.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 15:48:38 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas
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I hope this subject hasn't been beat to death before, I haven't seen it
mentioned...

The software fastback formats and backs up info onto the floppy of
choice.  Trying to find out some of its error checking abilities I put
in a 360kb size floppy and told it to  store much more than 260kb.
As it turned out the size of the files to backup were about 1.1M.
It didn't have a problem...   When I restored the files, C source files,
they appeared to just fine.  They all compiled correctly and ran.

These same floppies would format to about 700kb in the switchless format
mode but not so reliably.

I tried this again with even more data and the software said that it had
loaded 1.5Mb before asking for another disk.

Does the fastback software have some super format coding scheme that
allows it to apparently backup this muck information??  Should I not
believe it knowing the floppies aren't rated for 1.2Mb.

any info...

thanks.

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Kevin Tomasek			 		kevin@neptune.amd.com
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices,  Austin, Tx	(512)462-5381
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