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From: korn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Interesting flakey disk
Message-ID: <13467@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 19:56:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 27 19:56:25 1986
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To force a format of a diskette, I go to my 512K mac (and 400K drive), and
press the little button inside the drive down, and quickly insert my
diskette.

If I want this diskette to be an 800K (MFS/HFS) formatted disk, I'll then
hit the reset button half-way through the format/initialization.  Then,
when I put this half-initialized disk into an 800K drive, the mac asks
if I want it initialized (being a "non-mac disk").

Kinda a lot to go through to re-initialize a disk, but...

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Peter Korn	korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU     {dual,decvax,sdcsvax}!ucbvax!korn