Floppy Disc Capacities [was Pictures of My Machine Room (So Far)]

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:26:06AM -0300, Alexandre Souza wrote:

>    FDRead/FDFormat did that in the glorious DOS days...

Ahh, bad memories.  Hey, I thought, lets use fdformat to make bigger
floppies so I have to waste less time swapping disks when I make a
backup!

Oops.

I vaguely recall that as well as cramming more sectors in per track,
fdformat and the like would write a couple of extra tracks as well.

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