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From: szabo@fzi.uka.de (Zoltan Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
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Message-ID: <91.063.18:42:11@ira.uka.de>
Date: 4 Mar 91 18:21:51 GMT
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Subject:Re: FDFORMAT 
Reply-To: szabo@fzi.uka.de (Zoltan Szabo)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 18:42:11 GMT
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>    I'd like to ask: is any one using FDFORMAT 
> from C. Hochstatter, et al. for formatting floppy disks ?
> 
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> The question:  Is there any potential problem in using non-standard
>                formatting utilities?  Any experience with this? 
>    

I tried it on many AT-s in our institute. With really good hardware I
had no problem, using 820K format on DD floppies. But our old clones
sometimes do not read the 820K format. But I never had problem with
720K (of course, I need to run FDREAD).

Zoltan Szabo
szabo@fzi.uka.de