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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:53:26 -0500
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: higher density diskettes
Message-ID:  <DErB8z.DLJ@bonkers.taronga.com>
References:  <199509080917.TAA08205@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199509080948.TAA01450@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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In article <199509080948.TAA01450@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>,
Michael Smith  <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>The upshot was that 10 sectors a track on 720, and 20 on 1440 disks was 
>close to 100% reliable.  Lots of people used 11/22 sector formats with
>minimal grief.  

11/22 is totally reliable, *IF* you read/write a track at a time (only
the one inter sector gap). This requires a significant change in the
drivers. :->



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