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From: noelroy@kean.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Formatting 800k on 3.5" disks
Message-ID: <14664@kean.mun.ca>
Date: 4 Sep 89 18:42:32 GMT
References: <423@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Organization: Computing Services, Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <423@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>, pais16@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Paisley Cursus ) writes:
> which results in 800k (double sided). This was done however on an ATARI ST.
> But to my big surprise, my PC has no trouble reading it, and chkdsk nicely
> reported it indeed was a 800k disk. 
> So you have 80k extra with no trouble!
> My question is: does anyone know of a program (preferably public domain) that
> can do the same trick on a MS-DOS PC ? I looked in the directory MSDOS.DSKUTL
> at SIMTEL20, but couldn't find anything like that.
> Please answer to me directly, since I'm not a member of this group.
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jos Grote Punt
 
There is a program in the SIMTEL archives called MAXI5.ARC (in the
DSKUTL directory) which will do this.  It will do similar things to
360K and 1.2M diskettes.
 
It is accompanied by a bios patch which some machines use.
 
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