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From: sslee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steven Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: floppy compatibility problem
Keywords: MSDOS, TOS
Message-ID: <281a65c4.130d@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 28 Apr 91 06:03:48 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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I've got tons of disks formatted at 80 tracks, 10 sectors/track
(double-sided) for 800K in twisted format.  I now want some of these
disks to be MSDOS compatible.  I used the program Diamond Format
which is capable of writing a MSDOS boot sector without reformatting
my disks, however MSDOS only recognizes the first 360K on the disk.
I presume it writes some type of info on the boot sector to indicate
the number of tracks and sectors it was formatted in.  Could someone
tell me where it is so I could use a disk editor to manuall change it?

Steven Lee