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  2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...

  3. fdformat - Wikipedia

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    The Linux fdformat program works with the kernel floppy driver. It simply formats a floppy disk using whatever parameters is already known to the system. [1] The setfdprm can be used to provide the system with unusual formatting parameters with which to format.

  4. Talk:Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Personally I think writing of the servo information is a separate step and prior to low-level formatting but that doesn't change the fact that the INSTALL command of the ISCKSF utility (or earlier variants thereof) does at least a part of the low-level formatting process of all CKD drives and all of the low-level formatting of early CKD drives ...

  5. Superformatting - Wikipedia

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    Another common use (which is not as popular nowadays) was to format low-density 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch floppies as high-density, or in the case of 3.5-inch disks, even extra-high density (HD-36). "Notched" disks will usually turn up a lot of bad sectors, especially if the formatted capacity is a considerable (1.5 to 3) number of times higher ...

  6. Interleaving (disk storage) - Wikipedia

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    Low-level format utility performing interleave speed tests on a 10-megabyte IBM PC XT hard drive. Historically, interleaving was used in Minimizing missed rotations between instructions on computers storing instructions on a drum memory; Ordering block storage on storage devices such as drums, floppy disk drives and hard disk drives. The ...

  7. Amiga Disk File - Wikipedia

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    The FDI format is publicly documented, [5] and accompanied by open source access tools. Because the format can store raw low-level data, as is for example required to support copy protection schemes and other non-standard formats, FDI files can be larger than disk image files in other formats. The typical file extension is .fdi. Because of the ...

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  9. Low level format - Wikipedia

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