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From: Mac.Nut@p5.f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mac Nut)
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Subject: RE: problems with FDHD formatting
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Date: 24 May 90 19:41:36 GMT
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> Reply-To: donn@radar.uucp
> 
> I can't format disks with my FDHD. Any attempt to format
> a 1.44M or 800K floppy ends with the message "Initialization
> failed" after the system starts verificiation of the format.
> Copying to and writing from previous formatted disks is no
> problem. 400K floppies can be formatted without problem.
> I've tried different copies of system software including
> 6.0.5. The machine is a MacII with the FDHD upgrade.
> 
> Has anyone had a similar problem or know a fix?
> -- 
> Donn Fishbein        ..!radar!donn
> 
There a small utility called B.A.D. which helps format the FDHD floppy format
the HD floppies.  Good luck.

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