My first
iteration of Windows 95 was on 3.5 inch
floppy diskettes. At
some point, I wanted to make a backup copy on
diskettes but couldn't
because the file sizes of the Windows
distribution
floppies was
1.8-1.9MB each. At the time I thought it was
some
sort of copy
protection. I assume they must have been able to
format the discs for a
higher capacity - close to 2MB.
Does anyone know how?
I would assume it's something similar to XDF.
Probably not XDF itself
though, as that is an IBM thing.
It's called DMF. 1.66 mb if I remember correctly.
There are other ways to increase the capacity of
floppies though - and with Linux it's quite possible
to get 1.75 mb reliably on one. (83 tracks, 21
sectors).
-Ian