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From: hollen@mana.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 400K floppy disks
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 08:53:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 08:53:25 1987
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Keywords: nonstandard BIOS format floppy disks JFORMAT
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In article <860@cod.UUCP> broman@cod.UUCP (Vincent P. Broman) writes:
>Does anyone know how to format floppies to a size of 400K?
>

I don't know exactly how the DPB is used for gaps and such, but I have
what I believe to be a public domain package called JFORMAT which uses
among many other formats, a 400k format. It provides not only a formatter,
but a device driver as well.  I am sure that by debugging how it works
on DOS, you could develop a model for your MINIX implementation.  The only
problem is that the documentation does not say for sure that this is
public domain or not.  There is no copyright notice.  Does anyone out there
know for sure?  If it is determined to be public domain, I would be happy
to E-mail and if enough interest, post to the net.


	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121
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