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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: HD floppies with Plus?
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 18:22:34 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- 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 :(
-
- Not.
-
- You have the diskettes? You have an 800K drive?
-
- Format the diskettes on your drive...the formatting process lays down
- the track/sector markers and all.
-
- They're more expensive than 800K diskettes, but they work just fine.
-
- When I get an FDHD diskette that goes bad, it usually works just
- find as an 800K diskette.
-
- Recidivism rates I don't know. :}
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