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Date:      Sun, 4 May 1997 20:22:55 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DXF?? format disk
Message-ID:  <19970504202255.FJ33897@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705041804.LAA14161@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on May 4, 1997 11:04:24 -0700
References:  <19970504095443.PB53897@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705041804.LAA14161@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> It's not 2M, it's either two or three more tracks, and it assumes a
> driver that works.  It's about 1.7M instead of 1.44M.

That's even more stupid than the ``weird, but within the specs'' OS/2
distribution format.  They are only using non-uniform sector sizes per
track, to get optimal filling.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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