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 by Christoph H. Hochstätter 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
- DMF, a high-density diskette format used by Microsoft
- XDF, a high-density diskette format used by IBM
External links
- FTP for the DOS tool, version 1.8, compiled .exe and Pascal sources
- Usage of the Bash command-line utility fdformat
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