adamar.farms@canremote.uucp (ADAMAR FARMS) (09/03/89)
TO: pais16@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl
Attention:Jos Grote Punt
From: adamarfarms@CANREMOTE.UUCP
Subj: Formatting 800k on 3.5" disks
Orga: Innerkip, Ontario N0J 1M0 ,CANADA
pl>From a friend I received a 3.5 inch diskette, formatted with 10
pl>sectors/track, which results in 800k (double sided). This was done
pl>however on an ATARI ST. But to my big surprise, my PC has no trouble
pl>reading it, and chkdsk nicely reported it indeed was a 800k disk.
pl>domain) that can do the same trick on a MS-DOS PC ?
(so there is a use for the ST after all!!)<grin>
Yes there is a formating program that will format 3.5 and 5.25
diskes to higher capacities.
Maxiform fits 420k on a 360k disk,800k on a 720k disk,
1.4 meg on a 1.2 meg disk, or 1.6 meg on a 1.44 meg disk.
Here is the address of the company promoting it and their
description of it. ^^^^^
MAXI Form
(version 1.54)
89-April-4
<c> 1988 Herne Data Systems Ltd.
P.O. Box 714
Station 'C'
Toronto Ontario M6J 3S1
(416)535-9335
Please note that MAXI Form relies on quirks in the MS-DOS/PC-DOS
operating system and BIOS ROM's. Although it has been tested on a wide
variety of systems with DOS versions 3.2x and later, it cannot be
guaranteed to work with all systems, especially ones which have been
heavily customized and modified (including the installation of non-
standard disk drives and controller cards) by the user; nor can it be
guaranteed to work with future releases of MS/PC-DOS. (Some DOS
releases may require the use of the special device driver program
SMAX.COM (outlined later in the documentation) for reliable performance
with some hardware systems.)
Each end user is requested to register his or her
copy with Herne Data Systems Ltd. along with a one time fee of $10.00 (in
either US or CDN funds). Payment of the registration fee entitles the user to
a copy of the printed documentation package as well as technical support.
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I have personally tried it and it works on my IBM-PC running PC-DOS 4.0
-360K drives.But I have to load the SMAX.COM driver to get it to work 100%
PC-TOOLS Ver 5.0 will not work with the MAXI-formated disks so I
don't use it.
This program should be of interest to you.
john ross
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