moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (11/07/89)
GIVEN: You have a quad-density floppy (i.e. it can be formatted to 1.4MB
on an Apple FDHD drive) that has been formatted to the 800K,
double-density double-sided format on a FDHD drive.
QUESTION: Can this disk be read on a standard 800K Apple floppy drive?
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau) (11/07/89)
In article <12245@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >GIVEN: You have a quad-density floppy (i.e. it can be formatted to 1.4MB > on an Apple FDHD drive) that has been formatted to the 800K, > double-density double-sided format on a FDHD drive. >QUESTION: Can this disk be read on a standard 800K Apple floppy drive? I don't think the Mac OS will allow you to format a HD floppy at the 800K format. The last time I inserted a HD disk into a IIcx (which I don't get to do often, so I remember these things) it just gave me one formatting option, which I assume is 1.44 megs. You can format a HD disk as 800K in an 800K drive, but a FDHD will ask you to reformat it. --- Alex "floppies are passe' anyway" Lau UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!franny!c8s-an INTERNET: c8s-an%franny.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)