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From: mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org (Matthew Frohman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Making a floppy drive ignore high density hole
Message-ID: <803@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 19 Jul 90 15:14:27 GMT
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I have a pair of those floppy drives which insists on detecting for me,
if there is a hole in my floppy disk.  I would like to install a toggle
switch to enable/disable the detector.  Ideally, I would like it to have
3 positions: HD, LD, or auto detect, but I don't know if that is possible.
Simply having 2 position (detect, no detect) would be sufficient.  I need
this because I have disks formatted at 720K for my laptop that my PC insists
are HD, since they have a hole in them, so I cannot write info to that disk
on my PC without scrambling the FAT.

Anyone out there done this already?  A detailed description would be
appreciated, since I do not do this sort of thing often, and I don't
want to destroy my computer.

BTW.  I have a HD 5 1/4 and a HD 3 1/2, but I really want this for the
3 1/2, though I would thing it would be the same process for both.

		Thanks in advance,
		Matthew