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Article #42505Re: Making an MFS disk (yes, really!)
From: Earle R. Horton
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 03:21
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 03:21
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In article <9173@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU
(Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
...
>I believe that holding down the option key when you format
>single-sided will cause an HFS 400k volume to be created. I seem to
>recall a TN describing how to format 800k MFS volumes, but I don't
>recall the details.
Boot a Mac Plus or 512ke from System 2.0. You can then format
800k MFS volumes all day long. I have never seen Apple endorse this
technique anywhere.
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