Re: 5.25 in disk drive

[markREMOVE@a2central.com (Mark Percival)]

On 29 Apr 2001, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>Mark Percival writes:
>
>>He would
>>have to make sure that he used DSDD 3.5 disks, the ones with the
>>single read/write hole on top of the disk.  Standard 2HD disks may
>>work for his purpose if he covers the extra hole with a piece of tape.
>
>Nope, not safely.  This has been discussed too many times here!

Yes, I know.  But I ws thinking from the perspective of a quick boot
3.5 ProDOS disk so he could format a 5.25.  I'm not thinking about any
sort of long term usage of a 2HD disk formatted as a DSDD disk.

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