Re: HOWTO->create the OS6.01 disks ?..........

["David\\Julie Wilson" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Check Walmart for DSDD 3.5 diskettes. I saw them there this week at my local
Walmart.

David

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote in message
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> > It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. If you don't have access to
> > any 800K floppies, you can fool the Mac into thinking 1.44s are 800ks by
> > taping over the hole opposite the write protect hole on the disks. (The
> > write protect hole has a sliding plastic thing to open or close it, the
> > other one, the one you need to tape over doesn't.)
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> Yep.  You're right.  I tried it and it only listed 1.44 meg formats
instead
> of all possible formats. They tried to make it too smart.  A Windows
> machine could be forced to format at lower density.
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> > Once taped over the Mac will think they're double-sided media instead of
> > HD and let you format prodos 800k. Then you should be able to copy to
> > them using DiskCopy as William suggested. You may still have problems
> > with some Macs, their floppy drives just don't seem to do the right
> > things with 800k.
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> Funny thing I had a disk formatted as 1.44 meg and putting the tape
> over the hole fooled it into thinking the disk was unformatted.
> It then did list only DSDD possible formats:  DOS 720K, Mac
> 800K and ProDOS 800K formats.
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> > Also bear in mind that you are forcing the issue with the disk media. It
> > will work, but there's no telling how long for. I tried this with a
> > number of floppies, and few of them lasted more than a few months before
> > becoming unusable, some of them failed much sooner than that. Still it
> > should be enough for you to get up and running.
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> Well. The disk are rather difficult to find but I did find a few sites
> on the Net that sell DSDD 3.5" disk still.  Not much brand selection
> but the good thing is that they only run about $4 for a box of 10.
> I lucked out recently and found a box of 100 at Goodwill for $2.50.
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