Special Formats

Four new disk types have been added to the Disk list: 400K, 800K, 1.36Mb, and 1.68Mb. This allows for the formatting and reading of disks with these unique formats.

The new types are meant to be used in conjunction with disks that normally are formatted to 360K, 720K, 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb respectively. The extra capacity is derived by increasing the disk's sectors per track and decreasing the gap width between sectors. Formatting disks with these new types is not recommended if the disk will be written over on drives other than the one it was formatted on, since drive speeds vary from drive to drive which , which can cause the data on the disk to be written incorrectly. If the formatted disk will only be read by other drives, then this will not be a problem.