Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oyster.cis.ohio-state.edu!allison From: allison@oyster.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Allison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: HD disks in a low density drive Message-ID: <74536@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Nov 89 03:28:04 GMT References: <4658@blake.acs.washington.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Mark Allison Distribution: comp Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 23 Well Vaughan, I have been using HD disks in low density drives for a couple of months now with no problems at all. I also know several people who have used DD disks in SD drives, with no problems. The only problem would be if you tried to format DD disks with HD format. 800K would fit onto a 1.4M disk easily. By the way, the reason I have been buying HD disks lately is that I am anticipating buying an SE 30 (which of course comes with the HD drive) and I don't want to waste any more money on 800K disks... all I will have to do is copy the data off of the disks, then reformat them to get the full 1.4M. I have tried this part too, and it works flawlessly. Mark -- Mark Allison - allison@cis.ohio-state.edu "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" --- Hunter S. Thompson -=- "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" --- Hunter S. Thompson