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Article #11892Formatting 800K disks in FDHD drives
From: Leo Bores
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 1990 01:19
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 1990 01:19
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In an article of <12 Apr 90 17:19:47 GMT>, costin@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (Dan Costin)
writes:
DC>How does one format a disk in an FDHD drive so it can be read by an
DC>800K drive? 800K drives will format either 800K or 400K, for
DC>backward compatibility. Do 1.4M drives have no backward compatibility?
Simply putting an 800K floppy into the drive activates the copy program to
initialize it as either double or single sided (800-400K). Putting a 1.4M
floppy into an 800K drive gets you (sometimes) an 800K disk that can no longer
be re-formatted to 1.4M.
Leo Bores, M.D.
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