Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DMRHRZ11.BITNET!HOCHSTAE From: HOCHSTAE@DMRHRZ11.BITNET ("Christoph H. Hochstaetter") Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: HDFORMAT uploaded to SIMTEL20 Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 89 18:47:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 39 X-Unparsable-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 89 14:48:42 CET Now available from Simtel20: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1: HDFORMAT.ARC BINARY 27776 109EH I wrote a program called HDFORMAT, which can format MSDOS 360 kB Disks with increased capacity. It can also format 720 kB Disks in 1.2 MB AT-Drives. Its advantage over other formatting software on the SIMTEL20 archive is, that it increases the storage of all standard disks (360 kB, 720 kB, 1.2 MB and 1.44 MB) up to 300 kB additional storage (e.g. format 1.44 MB Disks in an 1.2 MB 5 1/4" Drive), that it runs also on less compatible PCs and that works perfectly with DOS 3.2 and up. It will not work with prior Versions, because these Versions do not read the complete BIOS-Parameter-Block (BPB) of the Disks, but only the Media-Descriptor-Byte. So special formats are not recognized. The archive includes executables, doc and sources. I hope the SIMTEL20 Users like the program Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph H. Hochstaetter Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Buero/Office: Privat/Private Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften Universitaetsstr. 25 Carl-Strehl-Str. 20 3550 Marburg 3550 Marburg Phone: +49 6421 28-3895 Phone: +49 6421 14618 BITNET/EARN/NETNORTH: HOCHSTAE@DMRHRZ11 INTERNET: HOCHSTAE%DMRHRZ11@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU UUCP: DMRHRZ11.BITNET!HOCHSTAE