Kirn Gill wrote: > A 1.44MB disk can be low-level formatted using the Linux "fdformat" > program to have the physical layout of a 720KB disk. Whoops, sorry --- you're absolutely right. 720kB heads *are* the same width as 1440kB heads (they use different numbers of sectors per track). I was confusing it with 40-track vs 80-track, which is a different but equally obselete era. Ignore what I said earlier. -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my │ telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out │ how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup
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