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               DESCRIPTOR BYTE DESCRIPTIONS:

               Value     Meaning
               255  -    dual sided, 8 sectors per track
               254  -    single sided, 8 sectors per track
               253  -    dual sided, 9 sectors per track
               252  -    single sided, 9 sectors per track
               249  -    dual sided, 15 sectors per track,
                         1.2 meg 5 1/4 or 720kb 3.5in
               248  -    fixed disk
               240  -    18 sectors per track 1.44 mb 3.5in


  The function mediatype() can be used to return the media descriptor
  byte of a disk drive. It can be found in the DISK section.

See Also: mediatype()

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