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- From: koehn@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- Subject: Re: formating disks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.044206.21775@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 23 NOV 92 22:38:30
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- In article <1992Nov23.193054.5821@spike.insci.com>, tom@mai.insci.com (Tom Chan) writes...
-
- >
- >Does anybody know why when you format a disk on the SE, you can't read it on the Quadra?
- >Is there a work around?
- >
- >Any help will be appreciated.
- >
- >Tom Chan
-
- Tom, it sounds like you took a high-density disk, stuck it into an SE with a
- non-FDHD (non-High Density) disk drive, and formatted it as a double sided disk.
- The disk will never again function as a high density disk, but if you put a
- piece of scotch tape over the hole on the left side of the disk (the one WITHOUT
- the little slider on the back) you will be able to read it on macs with
- high-density drives.
-
- In the future, be sure to format only low density disks (they don't have the
- extra hole) on low-density macs.
-
- Brad Koehn
- koehn@macc.wisc.edu
-