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From: hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Disk space for FREE (was Re: super high density formatters)
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Date: 16 Nov 90 10:07:24 GMT
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In <1990Nov16.035524.22022@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Frank T. Wang) writes:


->has anyoe used those programs that can format a 1.44 meg disk to, say, 1.7 meg?
This I have not tried yet, but I think it is rather reliable. Amiga for 
instance formats a 1MEG disk to 880Kb, which is a lot more than IBM's 720.
This is done by formatting more tracks/sector and more tracks/disk. This 
same method is used by the formatting program FDFORMAT16 (to be found at 
SIMTEL20, uwasa.fi, ...). There is however a minor disadvantage to formatting
yer disks to a higher capacity -> they are not compatible anymore!
So my advise is: don't use the program. There is a better way to gain
diskspace : use DD disks, punch a hole in it (just opposite the write-protect
tab), and format it to HD. This way you gain 100% disk space for FREE!!!
-> and other such HIGH formats?  how unreliable are these?  i figured it'd be
->as dangerous as formatting a DD disk HD.
This is exactly what I just mentioned, and it is perfectly safe (I did this
to about 60 disks, and they did not give one format/read/write/... error at
all!. The only recomendation I have is that you should use GOOD disks (3M or
such), because these are more reliable than others.)

Hope this satisfies you and other netters as well,



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