Formatting 800K disks in FDHD drives

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From: Dan Costin
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 17:19

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How does one format a disk in an FDHD drive so it can be read by an
800K drive?  800K drives will format either 800K or 400K, for
backward compatibility.  Do 1.4M drives have no backward compatibility?

-dan

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From: costin@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (Dan Costin)
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