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From: kriss@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (R M Kriss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Reformatted HD Disks
Keywords: HD Disks, SE/30
Message-ID: <369@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 90 06:06:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lockheed Austin Div.
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Learn something new about Macs everyday. A friend mailed me a disk formatted
for 1.4M. My Mac Plus could not read the disk, so I reformatted it to 800K and
sent it back to him. His Mac with the HD drive could not read the disk. He
sent it back to me and it worked great. 

I think the problem is with the HD drive. They can read 400k or 800K disks
formatted on a nonHD drive but cannot read a HD disk reformatted on a nonHD
drive.   Heads-up reformatting HD disks.

I am planning to buy an SE/30 soon. Maybe I can get around the reformatting
problem by using my old 800K Apple external drive. Can a SE/30 read a 800K
reformatted HD disk on the external drive? Will the old external drive even
work on an SE/30?

Dick


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