Re: formating disks

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1 total messages Started by koehn Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:38

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Author: koehn
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:38

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In article <1992Nov23.193054.5821@spike.insci.com>, tom@mai.insci.com (Tom Chan) writes...

> 
>Does anybody know why when you format a disk on the SE, you can't read it on the Quadra?
>Is there a work around?
> 
>Any help will be appreciated.
> 
>Tom Chan

Tom, it sounds like you took a high-density disk, stuck it into an SE with a 
non-FDHD (non-High Density) disk drive, and formatted it as a double sided disk. 
The disk will never again function as a high density disk, but if you put a 
piece of scotch tape over the hole on the left side of the disk (the one WITHOUT 
the little slider on the back) you will be able to read it on macs with 
high-density drives.

In the future, be sure to format only low density disks (they don't have the 
extra hole) on low-density macs.

Brad Koehn
koehn@macc.wisc.edu

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