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Article #38017Re: New SE/30 discoveries (FDHD)
From: Rob Pfile
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 04:03
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 04:03
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In article <83842@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes: >will again offer only to initialize or eject. > >Thus, the moral of the story is: use HD floppies (with cutouts in the upper >left corner) only in HD floppy drives. You can't (reliably) use this disk to >transfer files to 400 and 800k drives. > >Shirley Kehr Why not just put a piece of scotch tape over the notch on the disk, as you might do to write-enable a standard audio cassette that has it's write enable notch broken out? The problem seems to be the fact that the se/30 checks the disk type, then tries to read MFM on the FDHD, fails, and asks to format the disk. Perhaps if you fool the hardware the computer can successfully read the disk... Rob Pfile pfile@cory.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!cory!pfile
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!pfile From: pfile@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New SE/30 discoveries (FDHD) Summary: why not cover HD disk notch? Message-ID: <10089@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 19 Feb 89 04:03:35 GMT References: <430036@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> <83839@felix.UUCP> <83842@felix.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: pfile@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Rob Pfile) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23