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From: jaapv@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: super high density formatters
Message-ID: <957@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
Date: 18 Nov 90 23:44:43 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.035524.22022@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jaapv@accucx.UUCP (Jaap Verhage)
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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In article <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?
> and other such HIGH formats?  how unreliable are these?  i figured it'd be
>as dangerous as formatting a DD disk HD.
>
>					Frank
I've been using FDFORMAT 1.5 for quite some time now, and have had
no reliability problems. I'm formatting DSDD disks on a HD drive, 5
1/4", to 820 KB, same on 3 1/2". HD disks get formatted to 1.44 MB
and 1.72 MB, respectively. 


-- 
Regards, Jaap.

Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, State University at Utrecht, Holland.
jaapv@cc.ruu.nl      +<-*|*->+      I claim *every*thing and speak for myself