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From: jin@spdcc.COM (Jerry Natowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Any experience with FDFORMAT?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 02:23:32 GMT
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In article <11707@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV writes:
>I have tried FDFORMAT and FDREAD with 360K floppies formatted to 820K (the
>docs say you should be able to do this reliably), and it worked well.

I have played with FDFORMAT and  FMTMAS and, while I could read and write
720-800 KB per floppy, I have not been able to boot those floppies.

On the other hand, unless you already have a large supply of DD floppies,
it is only marginally cheaper to use 800 KB floppies than HDs at 1.2 MB.
At least at Service Merchandise's prices ($5 a box vs $8).
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