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- From: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
- Subject: Re: Problem: SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.181350.10832@ntmtv>
- Sender: news@ntmtv
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- Reply-To: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Aug17.133253.27492@rtsg.mot.com> <1992Aug18.151614.3275@otago.ac.nz> <1992Aug18.220909.14770@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:13:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.220909.14770@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.151614.3275@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
- >>
- >>Is it even possible to tell the formatting type by looking at the
- >>media? Wouldn't you would have to know the formatting type to be
- >>able to even try reading the disk (i.e. Catch-22)? I don't know,
- >>I'm only a software guy :)
- >
- >Buried in one of the tech notes is a disk-inserted code which means
- >'high-density disk formatted as 800K'. Assuming that code really
- >appears, I'd think Apple ought to recognize it, announce the
- >situation, and at least allow READING the disk.
- >--
- >Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
-
- The Macintosh *must* be able to read that formatting information...
- at least enough to be able to tell that it's an 800K formatted disk.
- The reason? When I get my alert box, it does *not* tell me that
- the disk is unformatted...it tells me that the disk was not formatted
- correctly...
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