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- From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
- Subject: HD floppy on A3000 problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182156.24018@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Keywords: HD floppy
- Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:21:56 GMT
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- I recently bought a HD floppy for my A3000. After changing the jumper
- on the motherboard and the jumper on the drive itself to be df1, the
- machine boots fine and both drives are accessible (the HD floppy and
- the regular LD one that came with the 3000). They both read, write,
- and format DSDD floppies fine. Now for the problem. I had bought
- HD floppies some time ago anticipating this purchase, and had formatted
- them with the LD drive. The new HD drive cannot read these disks,
- which is to be expected, as the drive detects the hole in the disk
- and expects high density, so it spins at half speed. But when I try
- to reformat such a disk, it either complains about bad sectors and
- aborts the format, or finishes (after stuttering on some tracks) but
- the disk is only 880K! What's up? I read in this group that you just
- format a disk and voila! It's 1.76M. Is this true (and therefore,
- I have a bad drive)? Or do I need to do something funky with a
- mountlist entry? Or does formatting an HD disk with an LD drive screw
- up the disk such that it can't be reformatted with an HD drive?
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- Of course, the quickest test of the third hypothesis would be to put
- a brand new floppy in the HD drive and format it. Unfortunately, being
- the pack rat that I am, I filled all my floppies with stuff. I just
- wondered if anyone had any answers before I go track down some more
- HD disks. Thanks for any help.
-
- Matt (reply to this account or to mguthrie@cedar.az05.bull.com)
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