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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:13:15 +0800
From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: How to Format 1MB Floppy
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Hi,

Daniel Ellard wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Adam Retter wrote:
> 
> 
>>Also someone mentioned that these 1mb disks only format as 720kb - is
>>that true?
> 
> 
> That was probably me...  What I meant is that there's a built-in
> option to newfs_msdos for 720K disks, but I don't think there's one
> for 1MB disks.  If you want to use the entire disk, and the 1MB is the

1MB disks and 720 KB disks are the same. 1MB is the capacity including 
checksums and so on while 720 KB is the capacity which can be used.

Erich