At 03:31 PM 6/3/02 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > 3. The third realistic possibility is a marginal floppy drive, one that > > can't quite manage to read the additional tracks that the 1680 format >uses. > > If the target hardware uses a standard floppy drive, you might see if > > swapping in a newer one improves the device's performance. > >For the record, the 1680K format does not use extra tracks on the floppy, it >simply reduces the "inter-sector-gap", or the blank space between data >sectors on the floppy. Conventional 1.44 Meg floppies have so much blank >space between the sectors, you can squeeze another 3 sectors of data per >track onto the disk.
Oops. Quite right. I was getting it mixed up with the 1722 KB format, which does use 82 tracks instead of the standard 80 (and which, as a consequence, has a lot more compatibility problems than does the 1680 format). -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
