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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: make your own HD 3 1/2 in floppies
Message-ID: <2340@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 01:54:44 GMT
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Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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	I was already to be faced with this dilemma when I discovered that
the Mitsubishi drives that come in my Wells American CompuStar do not
seem to check.  They will take an MF-2 DS/2D and format it for 80 tracks
(1.44M) -- No questions asked. They do however, seem to place the wrong
number of bytes on the disk (1467496, I think VS 1461248, about 6K extra) 
unless you specify T:80, but they do this even on the correct HD medium.  
I have been told that this is not the drive's fault, but rather the way 
PC-DOS format mishandles external 3.5" drives. Anyway, the former saves
big bucks, while the latter just costs a few extra letters on the command line.
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                      "If I don't see you soon, I'll see you later."