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Hello David - 

DD>>> I wonder how old RT's drive is.... 

CA>> That may be a factor but I'm not saying a drive that won't
CA>> do an extended format is 'bad' or 'broken', only that
CA>> certain drives did not allow the head to travel beyond the
CA>> accepted 'last track' position while other drives did. :-) 

DD> Ah - I had an idea that the number of tracks was the same,
DD> and they crammed more sectors per track.... 

They do that and more. It depends how far 'out there' you want
to get when extending the capacity of one floppy.

When I was doing this the terminology was more meaningful to me
than it is now but I have/had DOS software that could toggle
everything that was alterable for formatting floppies to any
absurd value you wanted to try. 

Occasionally you get 'lucky' and can go out to 1.9 meg but then
few other floppy drives will read those. When the drive used
to do this format dies you're often just shut out and can no
longer access those floppies. :-\ 

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