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- From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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- Subject: Re: Problem: SE formats HD floppy as DD, but LC rejects it...why?
- Message-ID: <956927.2A9A4A7D@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 19:02:52 EST
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- dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
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- DB> Why *shouldn't* it work? How many naive users have lost data
- DB> because they thought their disk was bad when the HD drive
- DB> didn't recognize the DD format on the HD disk? As I've mentioned
- DB> before, I know that formatting HD disks to DD capacity is
- DB> dangerous due to media differences. But I also know that I've
- DB> done this on rare occasions on DOS machines and have never
- DB> had a single bit of lost data.
- DB> Macs are supposed to *empower* users and allow the power to
- DB> remain in the users' hands. This particular design deficiency
- DB> hinders that goal.
-
- I've been following this for awhile, and I think Daryl has a point. It is
- true that HD disks should not be formatted as DD, and vice versa, but it is
- also true that it inevitably happens sometimes. I think Apple should build
- the system so that when a wrongly-formatted disk is inserted into an FDHD, the
- user gets a message: "This is a high density disk, and is incorrectly
- formatted as a low density (800K) disk. Would you like to fix this? ((yes))
- (no) (eject)." This is much more intuitable, and usable by the majority of
- non-techie users, than the current "not a Macintosh disk. Format it?"
-
- Maybe soon, when Apple in its usual manner takes the bull by the horns and
- starts building 21MB floptical drives into their machines as the base floppy.
-
- However, this only represents a tweak to the current Apple method. Compare
- even the current Apple method to the DOS method of not giving a damn one way
- or another, and not even giving _any_ indication to the user that something's
- wrong. Apple's wins, hands down. Format b: /f:720, indeed. And not from
- within aplications, but only from the c:\apps\msapps\excel\jhnm1q92> prompt...
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