lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) (03/01/90)
I am looking for a program I believe was smitted in c.b.i.p. clled
FDFORMAT. It enabled disk drives to exceed their rated capacity
by using either another track or another head. An example is making a
720K drive format a disk to 832K. Well, anyway, I put it
one one of it's one formatted disks and now my drive won't read it.
And, of course, I can't find it on my backups...
If you can help me, I'd appreciate it.
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Steve Lodin
Delco Electronics Corp., Kokomo, IN
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UUCP: <backbone>!{iuvax|pur-ee}!aiehost!lodinw8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) (03/02/90)
In article <3678@plains.UUCP> lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) writes: >I am looking for a program I believe was smitted in c.b.i.p. clled >FDFORMAT. It enabled disk drives to exceed their rated capacity >by using either another track or another head. An example is making a >720K drive format a disk to 832K. Well, anyway, I put it >one one of it's one formatted disks and now my drive won't read it. >And, of course, I can't find it on my backups... It's in SIMTEL20 directory pd1:<msdos.dskutl> Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== FDFORM15.ARC B 109360 891030 Format floppies for greater density/storage Please download pd1:<msdos.filedocs>SIMIBM.ARC for a complete index of our msdos archives. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (03/02/90)
In article <3678@plains.UUCP>, lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) writes: > >I am looking for a program I believe was smitted in c.b.i.p. clled >FDFORMAT. It enabled disk drives to exceed their rated capacity >by using either another track or another head. An example is making a >720K drive format a disk to 832K. Well, anyway, I put it >one one of it's one formatted disks and now my drive won't read it. >And, of course, I can't find it on my backups... > I believe the latest version is in file FDFORM15.ARC, available in directory pd:<msdos.dskutl> on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. Richard Stanton
djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) (03/03/90)
Since the subject of fdformat has arisen here, has anyone else had
any difficulty using it to format 1.2M diskettes in a 1.2M drive?
Nothing fancy, no special parameters or settings, just the plain
vanilla configuration. Fdformat regularly gives me "sector not
found" messages, whether I am formatting a virgin disk or reformatting
one that had been formatted by another program earlier. No problems
formatting 360k diskettes (and no problems formatting the latter to
720k in a 1.2M drive); the only problem is with formatting 1.2M
diskettes to 1.2M.
I sent an inquiry to the Bitnet address given in the documentation
file, but received no response.
Thanks,
David
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