Re: 800k vs 1.44k floppy drives

[Byron Desnoyers Winmill <byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net>]

Pretty much any Macintosh with a floppy drive (less the 128k and 512k) can
write 800k floppies.  That said, the common wisdom is that drives without the
the auto-inject feature appear to have trouble (all PowerMacs, and late model
68k Macintosh computers).  Also, while you can probably trick the computer
into thinking a high density diskette is 800k by covering that hole, it is
also not advisable since data loss is probable.

Finally, on your RGB monitor issue: if the monitor says Macintosh it
probably won't work on the IIgs.  As you suggested, the driving frequency is
simply too high.  The RGB designator also doesn't mean anything.  I have an
'AppleColour High Resolution RGB Monitor' for the Quadra, and an 'AppleColour
RGB Monitor' for the IIgs.

Nailslover <nailslover@aol.com> wrote:
> how do i know if a mac (beige) is capible of making 800k floppys... and how the
> heck do i force a mac to format a floppy at 800k so that i can use it with my
> apple 2gs??  do i need to cover the little hi densitity hole like on a pc??

> thanks
> bo