Re: HD 5.25 format?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

>You cannot format, read or write a high density 5.25" disk in a standard
>Apple II disk drive.
> 
>High density 5.25" disks use a different magnetic coating from
>single/double density disks, and you need a special disk drive which is
>able to handle this.

    It should be noted that this differs from High Density 3.5" diskettes.
You cannot, under any circumstance, makes use of an HD 5.25 diskette in a
single/double density 5.25 drive (eg, Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM PC/XT).