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From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Beware formating HD floppies in DSDD drives
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.001500.26420@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 00:15:00 GMT
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>In article <1567@diamond2.UUCP> derosa@cell.mot.COM (John DeRosa) writes:
>>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). 

>>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.

YOU CAN use the 1.4 meg, 800K formatted floppies in a FDHD drive...
What you do is use a piece of (opaque) tape to cover the extra hole,
and then put it in the drive!  Then I would suggest copying and
reformatting the disk properly...

-- 

	-=Alan=-
	aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu