| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
I am a new ATARI user. I have a question on disk capacity.
I understand that there are two disk capacities depending on single or
double surface usage. Capacity is then +/- 360k or 720k.
Nowing this I was happily copying a number of disk some in single some
in double.
At one point I wanted to copy a disk which I tought was a normal double
sidded disk, and I formatted a target disk for double side.
When I started the copy I got rejected for a mismatch of disk type.
When I had a closer look at the origin disk, its total capacity was
about 780k. (About 760K used and 18K remaining)
Do I miss something? is there a way to format disks with that capacity?
Regards
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| 1259.1 | Try FastCopy 3! | STKHLM::LETTERSTAL | Mon Mar 09 1992 11:24 | 13 | |
Actually there exists several formatter-programmes that allows
you to choose numbers of tracks and sectors when formatting.
I often use 82/10 or 83/11(HD-floppies), without any problems.
That gives you about 820 kB or 913 kB per floppy (double-side).
780 kB seems a bit odd though. It could be an 78/10 floppy.
Is it a game-floppy?
Perhaps the FAT-table is 'screwed up'?
Any other comments out there?
/johan
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| 1259.2 | Check out DCformat | YNGSTR::WALLACE | Mon Mar 09 1992 12:32 | 9 | |
Keep in mind that some Atari drives won't work past 80 or 81 tracks. I've had a couple of drives which when I tried to read files off a disk formatted as 82 tracks, I could hear the head hitting against the head stop. Not good for the drive at all. You should be able to find DCformat on the network somewhere. DCformat will let you format and copy these other formats. Ray | |||||
| 1259.3 | KERNEL::IMBIERSKI | The sound of electric wood | Tue Mar 10 1992 10:56 | 11 | |
I agree with -.1... my drives make some pretty nasty knocking sounds
when formatting past track 81. Add to this the problem using the
standard TOS diskcopy function unless the source and destination disks
match exactly, and to me it's not worth the hassle for an extra 200Kb
of storage. Disks aren't THAT expensive 8*). These formatters are
useful, however, if you want to fit a single large file or set of
application files on one disk.
Just my opinion,
Tony I
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| 1259.4 | 81/10 | TROOA::RATTMAN | Tue May 19 1992 12:42 | 5 | |
I've never had any problems formatting up to 83/11 on both my DS
drives. However, I find 81/10 is the best to be using...
KR
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