andrew@otago.ac.nz (06/11/91)
This is probably one of those 100 times plus questions but... How do I find out what format the disk in the floppy drive is if all I know is that the disk is 5.25" and readable by the PC disk interface? Or, in other words... I have a disk that may be 320K, 360K, or 1.2Meg, although I don't know which. The disk will read on a PC although the disk in NOT in MS-DOS! This means I cant read the BPB from the first sector on the disk (because its not there) and I can't read the FAT-ID (its not there either). I want to be able to sense what format the disk is in so I can write a program that will read the disks without relying on the BIOS. I also want to be able to read disks formated with 400KFORMAT, a neat Publuc Domain program that is available from some of the buliten boards around here... this means I need to be able to work out what tracking and sectoring the disk uses! Andrew.