17 Apr
2017
17 Apr
'17
9:20 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
WinNT/2K/XP will read Japanese PC98 MS-DOS
1024*8*2*77, but I don't know
if it'll format that particular format (never tried).
Doubtful on FORMAT, since that is working from a very short list of
choices, but reading (and hence writing) can be based on what it knows or
finds out about the disk.
Well, FORMAT.EXE on a PC98 machine would certainly know how to do it.
Is track 0 sector 1, formatted as 512BPS?
If not, how does it even come up with the idea to try 1024BPS?
(in order to read it, to find out that it should try it for reading it...)
(at location 0Bh in the BIOS Parameter Block, is the bytes per sector, but
unless that sector is 512BPS, how did the OS read it to know to use that?)
BPB doesn't include the number of tracks, but it does have the sectors per
track, heads, and total number of sectors. It also has the "Media
Descriptor Byte", but I wouldn't rely too much on that.)