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From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching)
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Subject: Re: Any experience with FDFORMAT?
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.012220.9132@amd.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 01:22:20 GMT
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In article <28897.27d21e90@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1h1a0m@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>..
>>    I'd like to ask: is any one using FDFORMAT 
>> from C. Hochstatter, et al. for formatting floppy disks ?
>> 
>..
...
>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.
>

DD floppies can be formatted to 720K reliably or 800K if you like living
on the edge. Only problem is that XTs with only 360K drives can't read
them.

Mike Ching