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31 mtools - utilities to access DOS disks in Unix.
42 * Mtools: (mtools).        Mtools: utilities to access DOS disks in Unix.
418 In order to format these disks, you need to use an operating system
440 @cindex DMF disks
441 @cindex Windows 95 (DMF disks)
447 to store up to 1743K on a 3 1/2 HD disk. However, 21 sector disks are
448 twice as slow as the standard 18 sector disks because the sectors are
454 believed that he invented this, and called it @samp{DMF disks}, or
455 @samp{Windows formatted disks}. But in reality, it has already existed
481 each) on the first cylinder, in order to make these disks easier to
487 data than the others. Unfortunately, DOS can only handle disks where
500 @cindex XDF disks
501 @cindex OS/2 (XDF disks)
507 order to access these disks, make sure mtools has been compiled with XDF
531 may reject partially corrupted disks, which might otherwise still be
541 The fat checking code chokes on 1.72 Mb disks mformatted with pre-2.0.7
661 needed to read some Atari disks which have been made with the earlier
664 If this is set to 1, mtools skips the fat size checks. Some disks have
763 @cindex Zip disks (partitions)
764 @cindex Jaz disks (partitions)
765 @cindex Syquest disks
766 @cindex Magneto-optical disks
775 is intended for removable media such as Syquest disks, ZIP drives, and
776 magneto-optical disks. Although traditional DOS sees Syquest disks and
777 magneto-optical disks as @samp{giant floppy disks} which are
778 unpartitioned, OS/2 and Windows NT treat them like hard disks,
780 hdimages. It is not recommended for hard disks for which direct access
787 for logical partitions in DOSEMU hdimages, and for ATARI ram disks. By
821 disks are accepted. On Linux (and on SPARC) there exist device nodes
996 @cindex Zip disks (raw SCSI access)
997 @cindex Jaz disks (raw SCSI access)
998 @cindex Syquest disks (raw SCSI access)
1058 @cindex XDF disks (how to configure)
1103 disks and /dev/fd0H720 for 720k (double density) disks. On Linux, this
1435 not intended to salvage data from bad disks.
1693 Fast.  Do not try to find out free space.  On larger disks, finding out
1735 @cindex Initializing disks
1736 @cindex Formatting disks
1843 in the fdutils package. XDF disks are used for instance for OS/2 install
1844 disks.
1896 its own.  Only the geometry fields are updated to match the target disks
1901 disks parameters.
1907 at least 1 for non-FAT32 disks, and at least 3 for FAT disks (in order
1954 The starting value is 1 for disks with one head or less than 2000
1955 sectors, and 2 for disks with more than one head, and more than 2000
2158 @cindex Zip disks (partitioning them)
2159 @cindex Jaz disks (partitioning them)
2290 cutoff point, as older versions of DOS only support FAT12 on disks
2441 @cindex password protected Zip disks
2508 @cindex XDF disks (compile time configuration)
2520 Enables support for XDF disks. This is on by default. @xref{XDF},
2638 or image file. This is mostly useful for Atari Ram disks (which contain
2652 disks.