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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Diskette parameters
Message-ID: <57918@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 12:40:56 GMT
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vsarkela@csc.fi <1990Sep11.144431.1@csc.fi> :
|         Does anyone know the diskette parameters? Interrupt 1Eh is actually
|         a pointer to those parameters, which are needed when formatting a
|         diskette. Yes, I know about fdformat PD program, which has source 
|         code also in the packed file. Point is, it works only with 360 kB 
|         diskettes. There is something wrong with those parameters (11 bytes).

Not true --- as of version 1.20, which I have, it happily mucks around with
my 720KB, 3.5" drive, and the documentation discusses 1.44M and 1.2M
diskettes (I can't try those formats).

This is the "fdformat" by Christoph Hochstaetter of Marburg, Germany.  (I
can't easily make an "a" with two dots over it, so I've substituted "ae".
That might not be the best substitution; my apologies to Christoph.)