Re: How many K does a ProDOS Apple IIe of IIc floppy hold?

[slick_RCBD@hotmail.com]

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
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> Nathan Mates writes:
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> >    Maximal capacity is 140K (35 tracks * 4K/track).
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> There are several instances of a hack that will push that up to 160K.
> Early 5.25" disk mechanisms (Shugart?) could not reliably handle more than
> 35 tracks.  But the next generation, starting with the second or third
> manufacturing run of the Disk ][ drives (IIRC) could handle 40.
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> DOS 3.3 is hard-coded with a 35-track limit in three places; the
> aforementioned "hacks" are nothing more than changing the value in those
> three locations from 34 (first track is 0) to 39.
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> ProDOS can handle much larger volumes, but I do not know of any similar
> hacks for it.
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Is there some place where I could find information on this 'hack'. Perhaps I
can use it to make a larger disk for saving games. That is all I use DOS 3.3
for. Any practical work gets done in ProDOS or GS/OS.

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