Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Making a floppy drive ignore high density hole Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 90 22:39:28 GMT References: <11547@ingr.com> <1990Jul19.021714.10040@world.std.com> <803@digi.lonestar.org> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org's message of 19 Jul 90 15:14:27 GMT In article <803@digi.lonestar.org> mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org (Matthew Frohman) writes: 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. 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. Wrong solution. Better to make the hole match the contents of the disk, or vice versa. If it's got a hole, and it's formatted as 720K, cover the hole. If it's formatted as 1.4M, and it doesn't have a hole, make one with a disk punch. That way, the disks you create will also be usable on other machines that do autodetect. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 In Communism's central planning, citizens are told "you will make widgets". In Capitalism's advertising, citizens are told "you will buy widgets".