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

["sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>]

http://www.vikingop.com/ has 800k floppy disks for sale

David\Julie Wilson wrote in message ...
>Check Walmart for DSDD 3.5 diskettes. I saw them there this week at my
local
>Walmart.
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>David
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>"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote in message
>news:Ab2c7.18325$K6.6737688@news2...
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>> "Howe Family" <khowe@omninet.net.au> wrote in message
>> khowe-0E1535.10232408082001@news.per.paradox.net.au">news:khowe-0E1535.10232408082001@news.per.paradox.net.au...
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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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