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From: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang)
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Subject: Re: Formatting 720K disks to 1.44 Megs HELP!!
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Date: 1 Dec 89 03:38:15 GMT
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In article <1989Nov27.212809.7241@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) writes:
>I recently brought a Toshiba 3.5" 1.44 meg High Denisty
>drive in hope of being able to do a "trick" that is done
>on Toshiba laptops and IBM PS/2 computers...
>
>I wanted to do some high volume backups by using regular,
>low cost 720K generic disks and formatting them to 1.44 megs..
>I heard that Toshiba drives are capable of doing this...

Hi all! Just wanted to thanks everyone for the prompt replys...

A call to Toshiba Technical Support after Thanksgiving weekend
revealed that all that needed to be done was to change a jumper
on the drive itself... By default it comes at MEDIA SELECT LOGIC
and it needed to be changed to HOST SELECT LOGIC... Now I can
format the 720K disks to 1.44 megs like a charm! No need to punch
holes or solder!! True, it is a bit risky but for my application
of temporary second backups (I mean backups to backups!!) it's
fine... Thanks again for the quick replys!

George


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George Wang
University of Illinois
gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu