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From: stevens@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Francis Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Floppy disks on 520ST
Keywords: floppy disk format
Message-ID: <955@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: 2 Aug 89 12:09:41 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK
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With all the PD disk formatters available which enable you to format
a floppy in a non-standard way (i.e. 10 sectors per track, 84 tracks per
side) which gives more than 720K per drive, does anyone have any advice
or warnings about doing this ?  An extra 80K or so per disk seems a good idea
but they must have settled on 720K for a reason (?). Any comments ?

Francis Stevens
stevens@prl.philips.co.uk