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From: cole@noao.edu (Lonnie Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: high capacity floppies
Message-ID: <1043@noao.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 20:09:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ
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This is my first posting to the net so please excuse if I mess up.

I am looking for sources, binaries, info, etc for any device drivers/programs
which will allow MS-DOS to format/read/write standard double sided/double
density floppies on a High density drive but to a higher capacity than the
normal 360k format. Let me explain:
I have a backup program which uses a high density 96 track AT drive to do
backups onto ds/dd diskettes (not HD diskettes) but instead of writing in the
quad density mode it uses double density mode. This allows a disk to be written
as double density but use 80 tracks instead of the normal 40 allowing for 720k
as opposed to 360k.

I would like to find something which would allow me to do essentially the same
thing under DOS. (ds/dd disks are much cheaper than HD disks and at 720k more
than 1/2 the capacity).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please E-mail responses to cole@noao.edu

Thanks again.  Lonnie