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Message-ID: <33F31753.220@bspu.ac.by>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:33:55 +0300
From: Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT ac DOT by>
Organization: BSPU named after Maxim Tank
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: shaun DOT wilde AT softel DOT co DOT uk
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Formatting

> 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.

Sincerely,
 Alexander Bokovoy, 
<bokovoy AT bspu DOT ac DOT by>
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