Fdformat

Fdformat

Fdformat is the name of two unrelated programs:

* A command-line tool for Linux that "low-level formats" a floppy disk.
* A DOS tool written in Pascal that allows users to format floppy disks to a higher than usual density, enabling the user to store up to 300 kilobytes more data on a normal high density 3.5" floppy disk. It also increases the speed of diskette I/O on these specially formatted disks using a technique called "Sector Sliding". In this technique, the physical sectors on the disk are ordered in such a way that when the drive advances to the next track, the next logical sector waiting to be read is immediately available to the read head.

See also

* 2M, a similar program that offers even higher capacity
* MAXI Disk, a similar program
* DMF, a high-density diskette format used by Microsoft
* XDF, a high-density diskette format used by IBM

External links

* [ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/fdfrm18.zip FTP for the DOS tool, version 1.8, compiled .exe and Pascal sources]
* [http://www.ss64.com/bash/fdformat.html Usage of the Bash command-line utility fdformat]


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