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Subject: Re: Formatting Floppies on a 780
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 12:31:01 EST
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From: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA

Jim,

In general DEC's floppy drives use the sync signal from the disk
for operations. Therefore unless the floppy is already formatted somehow...
you can not format them.

I have been burned several times with this...occasionally the buyer
for various data junk like tapes, chips and floppies gets me unformatted
and voilia...I quickly find I have problems trying to get arff to work
under Unix or R FORMAT under RT-11.

-Rudy