FDFORMAT - Format Disks with higher Capacity


FEATURES OF FDFORMAT
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FDFORMAT is a replacement for the DOS-Format program, which has the
following advantages:

1) Supporting 3л"-1.44 MB drives with any BIOS-Versions in ATs and
   Clones. This saves you a lot of money, you would need for a new
   BIOS-Version.
2) Formatting and using of 720/820 kByte disks in AT 5м"-1.2 MByte
   Drives using cheap double-density (DD) disks.
3) Increasing the capacity of your disks up to 300 kByte additional
   storage.
4) Supporting 3л"-360 kByte format. This is useful, when you want to
   make copies of 5м"-disks to 3л"-Disks using DISKCOPY
5) Enhance speed of your diskette I/O up to 100% with sector sliding.
   This is a method of physical ordering sectors in a  way, that your
   drive is ready to read the next logical sector, when your head
   advances one track.
6) Improved BOOT-Sector, which automatically boots from harddisk, if
   the diskette in drive A: is not a system disk. This allows you to
   leave the diskette in drive A:, when you reboot the system.


COMMENTS AND PROBLEMS
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Comments, improvements, suggestions and problems may be sent to
the Author

Christoph H. Hochstoetter
Carl-Strehl-Strasse 20
D-3550 Marburg
West-Germany

Phone: +49 6421 14618 (voice/BTX)

E-Mail: HAMPE2@DMRHRZ11.BITNET (Bitnet/Internet)
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