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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Can quad-density(1.4 MB) floppies be read on low-density floppy drives?
Keywords: floppy drives novice question
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Date: 7 Nov 89 07:26:11 GMT
References: <12245@fluke.COM>
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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
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