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- From: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore)
- Subject: Re: Problem: SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.192242.26080@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
- References: <1992Aug17.133253.27492@rtsg.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:22:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.133253.27492@rtsg.mot.com> wolfmc@rtsg.mot.com (Michael Wolf) writes:
- >What I have done is take a HD floppy and format it on an SE, which
- >formats it as an 800k floppy. I then take it to my LCII and it
- >wants to initialize the floppy since it thinks it has been
- >incorrectly format.
- >
- >If I then place tape over the HD indicator hole on the floppy,
- >the LCII reads the floppy correctly.
- >
- >Should the LCII be smart enough to realize the floppy is formatted
- >as 800k, even though it is a HD floppy?
- >
- >Is there something I missed because I never payed attention to
- >what disks I had used before between the two machines, and now that
- >I triwed a HD one, it doesn't want to work okay?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >MJW
- >
-
- The only way the LC knows what size floppy you insert is by mechanically
- sensing the "extra" hole. Hole == HD floppy. You'd get the same results
- trying it in one of the later SEs with the HD floppy drive.
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