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From: derosa@cell.mot.COM (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Beware formating HD floppies in DSDD drives
Message-ID: <1567@diamond2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 21:46:49 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I have found in my Macintosh travels that it
is possible to format HD floppies as 400K or 800K 
in a DSDD drive (mac plus, se, II, etc).  Why, you
might ask??  Well I ran out of DSDD and really 
needed a 800K copy.

BEWARE: If you now put this HD/800K hybrid floppy
in a HD Drive (se-30, IIX, IIcx, etc), the floppy
will be rejected with a "unrecognized disk, do you
want to format?" dialog box.  Upon review of
the FDHD manual (a reference of last resort) it
says just that.

Apple (are you listening?) this is silly engineering
in my book, not bad, just silly.

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