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From: drp@vpnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Pokorny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: 1.6 mb diskettes
Message-ID: <26805b48-90.2comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 Jun 90 05:55:14 GMT
References: <5773@hub.ucsb.edu> <4af5e46a.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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As a side note, there is a PD program called MAXI which will format 1.2
megabyte diskettes to 1.44 megs, and 1.44 meg diskettes to 1.6 megabytes.

The program uses a "standard" dos format and does not require the user to
load any sort of "driver" on 90% of IBM compatable hardware out there.
The 10% of incompatable computers suposidly have "nonstandard bioses" and
MAXI requires that you load a TSR called smax before it'll work.

Does anyone know how this program is able to:

a) squeeze extra space out of any type of disk (i.e. 360k, 720k, 1.2m, 1.44m)
b) do the above without modification to DOS or using a device driver

-Doug Pokorny
(drp@vpnet.chi.il.us)

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