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From: mcmillan@harpsichord.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan)
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Subject: Re: format
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Date: 18 Apr 91 15:28:20 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.051135.23168@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tkawasak@isis.cs.du.edu (tatsuya kawasaki) writes:
>when I tried to format HD, it said " Invalid media or Track 0 bad
>-disk unusable
>format failure

Although this posting is a little vague, I'll take a stab at it.  You
are probably using a 1.44M 3.5" drive and you have tried to format a
DD (720K) disk to HD.  Your drive will not format a 3.5" disk to HD
unless it has the HD hole in it (on the other side of the label from
the write-protect hole.  Try a genuine HD disk and see what happens.

	Hal
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