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From: krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 82 tracks, twister, etc.
Summary: Disk Formatting questions
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Date: 24 Oct 89 16:03:11 GMT
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I have a few questions about disks and disk formatting for the ST.

	1) I use Universal Item Selector II and it has an option for
	   formatting disks.  They offer a format scheme known as Twister
	   format.  What is this?  Why would I want to use it?  Can all
	   drives read it?

	2) I have both the Atari single-sided and double-sided drives.  Both
	   of these drives allow me to format up to 82 tracks, but they can't
	   seem to read past the 80th track.  Should this be?  Why can it
	   format out to 82 but only read up to 80?  I'm confused.  If I
	   formatted with Twister, could I read up to the 82nd track?

	3) Are there any 3rd party drives that support 1.4M disks?  By
	   suuport I don't mean that they will format them to 800K but to the
	   full 1.4M mark.

In conclusion, I'd like to state that I'm sick of all the TT/386/Apple
bashing.  Let's stick to ST information, etc. for a while.

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