Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!mdfreed
From: mdfreed@ziebmef.mef.org (Mark Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low Density Disks in High Densi
Message-ID: <1989Aug29.103354.29964@ziebmef.mef.org>
Date: 29 Aug 89 14:33:53 GMT
References: <291@bilver.UUCP> <45900267@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: mdfreed@ziebmef.mef.org (Mark Freedman)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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(how does the 1.2 meg drive recognize a diskette formatted as 360K)
   
    The FAT contains a media-descriptor byte, which contains a code representing
the diskette format. In your case, a 1.2 meg is F9, while a 360K is FD.