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Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970814164810.006b9c20@post.softel.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:48:10 +0000
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Shaun Wilde <shaun DOT wilde AT softel DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Formatting
CC: Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT ac DOT by>
In-Reply-To: <33F31753.220@bspu.ac.by>
MIME-Version: 1.0

At 17:33 14/08/97 +0300, you wrote:
>> I would like to format a disk (floppy) that would have
>> 256 bytes per sector, 16 sectors per track and 80 tracks (2 heads)
>> 
>> but I don't know how to go about it. I think I can use the
>> biosdisk function but I don't know how I am supposed to set the
>> sector size to 256.
>
>If you want simply create disks with this format, try some of well-known
>freeware or shareware disk formaters and analizers from Russia such as
>FFormat or PU_1700 series or formater, which included into DOS
>Navigator. They have many non-standard options.
>

I'd like to integrate it into my application as I have to write the FAT
(or its particualr version)

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