Distribution Media Format
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Distribution Media Format (DMF) is a format for floppy disks that Microsoft used to distribute software.[1][2] It allowed the disk to contain 1680 KiB of data on a 3Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄2-inch disk, instead of the standard 1440 KiB. As a side effect, utilities had to specifically support the format in order to read and write the disks, which made copying of products distributed on this data storage medium more difficult. An Apple Macintosh computer running Disk Copy 6.3.3 on Mac OS 7.6 or later can copy and make DMF disks.[3] The first Microsoft software product that uses DMF for distribution were the "c" revisions of Office 4.x. It also was the first software product to use CAB files, then called "Diamond".
Comparison of standard 1440 KiB and DMF 3Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄2-inch diskettes:
| Feature | Standard | DMF |
|---|---|---|
| Tracks | 80 | 80 |
| Sectors per track | 18 | 21 |
| Cluster size, in bytes | 512 | 1024 or 2048 |
| Root directory entries | 224 | 16 |
DMF, in the form of a 1680 KiB Virtual Floppy Disk (VFD) image, and IBM Extended Density Format (XDF) images are supported by Windows Virtual PC.[4]
See also
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- fdformat, a DOS program that allows the formatting of high-capacity floppy disks
- IBM Extended Density Format (XDF), a high-density diskette format used by IBM
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Definition of Distribution Media Format (DMF)". Microsoft Knowledge Base. 2007-01-19. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rosch, Winn L. (1997-04-18). Floppy Disks. SAMS Publishing. ISBN 0-672-30954-8. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
... reducing the inter-record gap (the space between sectors) down to nine bytes ... Each track uses a 2:1 interleave factor ... The DMF format also skews the sectors on adjacent tracks by three sectors ...
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Armstrong, Ben (2007-01-05). "Floppy disk image formats supported by Virtual PC and Virtual Server". Virtual PC Guy's Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
