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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reformatted HD Disks
Keywords: HD Disks, SE/30
Message-ID: <4137@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 90 08:29:54 GMT
References: <369@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <369@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> kriss@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (R M Kriss) writes:
>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.

The solution is simple--place a piece of tape over the HD indicator hole
on the HD floppy which was formatted to 800K when inserting it in the
SuperDrive.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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