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From: mig@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
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Subject: Re: FDFORM17.ZIP - Floppy disk formatter - up to 1.8 mb per disk!
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Date: 20 Jun 91 22:42:01 GMT
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In article <11230003@hplsla.HP.COM> ericb@hplsla.HP.COM (Eric Backus) writes:
>>pd1:<msdos.dskutl>
>>FDFORM17.ZIP    Floppy disk formatter - up to 1.8 mb per disk!
>Does doing this make it difficult/impossible to spare bad sectors?  If so,
>does that matter?  Does it make the diskette less reliable?
Use version 1.6, for now.  I LOVE it and haven't found any reliability
problems.  But 1.8 MB is really much too small for real work and backing up
a 200 MB hard disk.

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