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Article #47909Re: Beware formating HD floppies in DSDD drives
From: Alan D Danziger
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 00:15
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 00:15
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>In article <1567@diamond2.UUCP> derosa@cell.mot.COM (John DeRosa) writes: >>I have found in my Macintosh travels that it >>is possible to format HD floppies as 400K or 800K >>in a DSDD drive (mac plus, se, II, etc). >>BEWARE: If you now put this HD/800K hybrid floppy >>in a HD Drive (se-30, IIX, IIcx, etc), the floppy >>will be rejected with a "unrecognized disk, do you >>want to format?" dialog box. YOU CAN use the 1.4 meg, 800K formatted floppies in a FDHD drive... What you do is use a piece of (opaque) tape to cover the extra hole, and then put it in the drive! Then I would suggest copying and reformatting the disk properly... -- -=Alan=- aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!aland From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Beware formating HD floppies in DSDD drives Message-ID: <1990Mar13.001500.26420@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 13 Mar 90 00:15:00 GMT References: <1567@diamond2.UUCP> <1408@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 19