Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Dumas Walker
From : boraxman
Date : Sat May 17 2025 20:21:28

On 16 May 2025 at 09:27a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...
 
 DW> > there is a switch for extended formatting in FreeDOS's format.com to ext
 DW> > format drives
 DW> > for 360k drives u can use /f:400
 DW> > for normal 360 use /4
 DW> 
 DW> IIRC, there was a share/freeware format program that you could do that
 DW> with back c1990.  You had to load the TSR on the system in question, and
 DW> their format program would let you put ~400-425 on a 360 disk.
 DW> 
 DW> Also IIRC, my 1.2M drive could read those without the TSR loaded, but
 DW> other 360 drives could not.
 DW> 

There was a program called 2M which could do this, but I think you could get over 700K on a 360K disk.

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