Amiga floppies size

[itix]

I think it refers to formatted capacity using the Original File System (OFS) or the Fast File System (FFS). Before Kickstart 2.0 you could only use OFS on floppies.

[itix]

The diskspare.device was acceptance replacement when I tried it on my Amiga in mid 90s however it was unstable on certain cheap and old disks. Since diskspare.device had to be loaded before it could be used it was usable only on HD systems. But when you have HD why use floppies?

IIRC when I only had 30MB harddisk on my A600 I used diskspare.device to store some lesser utilities to floppies. I was always short on disks so I wanted to cram more stuff.

[itix]

How could one not prefer a full head step over a half head step.

When yo uhave HD you have no generally need for floppies anymore. If you dont have HD you are screwed anyway because you cant boot from sparedisk.device formatted floppy.

It was interesting experiment but higher capacity CD-R/RW were becoming mandatory in mid and late 90s.