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From: rcotl@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Tim Liddelow [The Mad Monk])
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FDFORM17.ZIP - Floppy disk formatter - up to 1.8 mb per disk!
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.030228.14509@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 21 Jun 91 03:02:28 GMT
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ericb@hplsla.HP.COM (Eric Backus) writes:

>These are quite impressive sounding.  I have to wonder if there is a
>downside to increasing the storage capacity and/or I/O speed in this way?
>Okay, one downside is you have to have FDREAD resident in memory to
>read/write the larger capacity diskettes.

Considering it only occupies 128 or so bytes, that is not a downside.

>Does doing this make it difficult/impossible to spare bad sectors?  If so,
>does that matter?  Does it make the diskette less reliable?

I have NEVER had any problems using FDREAD/FDFORMAT.  If others have, I would
like to hear it.

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