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|    Guillaume Tello to All    |
|    Re: Structure of .ST files    |
|    21 Apr 12 15:39:27    |
      1e84d031       From: houten.van@orange.fr              Le 21/04/2012 13:37, Paolo a écrit :       > Please, what is the structure of a .ST file emulating an Atari ST       > floppy disk?       > It gets 738.260 B versus 726.016 on the FD.       > Thanks       > Paul               A standard floopy has:        80 tracks with 9 sectors of 512 bytes on each side, so it is a total of:        80*9*2*512 = 737 280 bytes.               Some sectors are reserved for boot + FAT, so you only get 726 016 bytes       available for storage.               738260 - 737280 = 980 bytes added.        Well, I can't say more in this organisation of those 980 bytes.               Guillaume.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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