[comp.sys.mac.misc] Can you format 400K disks with HFS?

amunn@umd5.umd.edu (Alan Munn) (01/06/91)

I remember someone mentioning recently that you can format 400K disks
with HFS by holding down some key when you format.  Is this true?

Alan

philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (01/06/91)

In article <7802@umd5.umd.edu>, amunn@umd5.umd.edu (Alan Munn) writes:
|> I remember someone mentioning recently that you can format 400K disks
|> with HFS by holding down some key when you format.  Is this true?
Try holding down OPTION. You have to either have the MacPlus or later ROMs
(in which case, why not format the thing as 800K?) or the HD20 init, which
implements HFS.
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Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu