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From: esmith@gypsy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Interesting flakey disk
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Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 11:41:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 25 11:41:00 1986
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Nf-From: gypsy!esmith    Apr 25 11:41:00 1986


I haven't tried this with the 800K drives, but with the 400K drives you can
*almost* always force a reformat of a disk by pushing down the little plastic
pin right inside the disk slot on the right side just long enough to get the
initialize or eject dialog, then inserting the disk and clicking initiialize.
Sometimes this fails immediately for no apparent reason, apparently because
the mac thinks the disk is write protected.  Maybe it remembers whether the
last disk it saw was protected?