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- From: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: HD floppies with Plus?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.144415.27064@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:44:15 GMT
- References: <BsvpI4.Cyp@cs.dal.ca> <4477@news.duke.edu>
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- In article <4477@news.duke.edu> jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang) writes:
- >In article <BsvpI4.Cyp@cs.dal.ca> graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham) writes:
- >>My dad got me a whole bunch of Sony HD disks, but I don't have a FDHD(?)
- >>What should I do with them? Can I use only 800k worth of them?
- >>
- >>thanks
- >>mike
- >
- >No. You might be able to get 400K out of (format 1 sided). But I think the
- >tracks are out of phase for 800K.
- >
- >Sorry, kiddo :(
-
- Wrong. They can be formatted to 800K, I've done it out of necessity.
- They may be a little flaky, since the formulation is different from
- the 800k disks. I'll trade you 800Ks, 1 for 1... B^)
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