Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Can you format 400K disks with HFS? Message-ID: <1991Jan5.232129.27831@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 5 Jan 91 23:21:29 GMT References: <7802@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 9 In article <7802@umd5.umd.edu>, amunn@umd5.umd.edu (Alan Munn) writes: |> I remember someone mentioning recently that you can format 400K disks |> with HFS by holding down some key when you format. Is this true? Try holding down OPTION. You have to either have the MacPlus or later ROMs (in which case, why not format the thing as 800K?) or the HD20 init, which implements HFS. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu