Re: Floppy drive cannot read High density floppies

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From: Pierre Gomez
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 00:00

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Do not bother for this message anymore.  Flopp drive sold. Problem solved.
Thank you.
** Important **

To write me, erase the obvious portion in my Email address.  Well, I HAD to
do something
against these dirty "spammers", no?

         Pierre alias Blueleader
         mguide@ERASE.THIS.TO.REPLY.total.net

Pierre Gomez <$mguide@total.net> wrote in message
<35696a58.0@news.total.net>...
>A friend of mine has a 386 and he thinks he once could read HD floppies,
but
>he's not sure about it.
>The only media that can be read id Double Density.  When trying to read
High
>density floppies, he gets the following message (or something like it):
Disk
>drive not ready.  He has DOS version unknown and Windows 3.1.
>
>I believe he has a Double density drive only.  I'll check for the density
>sensor and the jumpers.
>Any other idea?  Well, I just think the obvious... Are his disk formatted?
>Hum....
>
>** Important **
>
>To write me, erase the obvious portion in my Email address.  Well, I HAD to
>do something
>against these dirty "spammers", no?
>
>         Pierre alias Blueleader
>         mguide@ERASE.THIS.TO.REPLY.total.net
>
>
>
>
>
>

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From: "Pierre Gomez" <$mguide@total.net>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive cannot read High density floppies
Date: 1998/06/02
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