Re: 800k vs 1.44k floppy drives

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <20010929194010.26652.00002726@mb-mq.aol.com>, nailslover@aol.com
(Nailslover) wrote:

> how do i know if a mac (beige) is capible of making 800k floppys

Any Mac with a built-in floppy drive can make 800KB disks. Well, except the
single-sided drives in the very early Macs :) I assume you've got the early
Power Mac G3.

> ... 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

Yes. If you're using high density disks the Mac will only let you format it
at 1.4MB. Covering the hole will fool it into thinking it's a DD disk. Be
aware though that this isn't recommended, the disk recording won't be
reliable, but it will normally work if you need to transfer some files.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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