oz390gta wrote:
I have just got my hands on a box of 5.25" DS,HD floppy discs. I was hoping to format them as plain old 140k disks but when I try to format them the format fails. The physical format of the disks looks the same as SD disks. Is there anyway of using these disks?
The oxide formulation used in 5.25" HD disks is magnetically incompatible with Apple (or third party) 5.25" drives, which were designed for SD or DD disks. They cannot be formatted or written on an Apple II. -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."