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From: 1h1a0m@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Any experience with FDFORMAT?
Message-ID: <28897.27d21e90@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 16:16:47 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've been using FDFORMAT for quite some time now and haven't found anything
wrong with it.  Most 1.2M drives will read and write to 5.25" floppies
(double density) formatted with FDFORMAT without any trouble at all.

Some 360K floopy drives WILL need the FDREAD tsr.  I always have a diskette
with me with FDREAD in case I can't read any FDFORMATed diskettes.

I use FDFORMAT to format 5.25" diskettes to about 425K.  That's almost
30% more space!  For HD floopies (1.2M) I don't bother with FDFORMAT.

Tony Montes - Univ. of Kansas