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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Twister, Format+ (was: Re: Bug report: 'The Russian Doll')
Message-ID: <967@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:06:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 13:06:45 1987
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Summary: Use Format+ and Sony bulk disks

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Format+ (the "dead sector" speed-up scheme - I use only 80 tracks, though)
seems to read a bit faster than Twister.  It does not speed writing. (Does
Twister?  Without turning verify off?)  My only complaint is that I have no
idea how it works...

My experience says: use Sony disks only.  A local outlet sells "bulk" Sony
DSDD 3.5" disks for about $1.45 each (at small quantities - "bulk" means
they come without box, polyethylene sleeves or labels, and sometimes they
are not marked as "Sony" although the (big) box is).  They are either blue
or _white_ (I prefer the (matt) white - write on them with pencil!).

- Moshe Braner