Re: Formatting disks

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John Holmes)]

What kind of floppies are you trying to format?  Are they double density 
double sided or are they quad density double sided?  I can't get the quad 
density (1.2 meg 5 1/4" floppies) to work in my drives either, but the 360K 
double density work just fine.

In article <s8oact7eh629@corp.supernews.com>, "Drew" 
<imasmoker@cornhusker.net> wrote:
>Hi  all,
>
>I cant seem to format any 5.25" disks with my IIGS.  I can format 3.5" all
>day long with no problems.  The apple has a IIGS 5.25" & 3.5" drive and I
>couldent format anything with appleworks, Dos 3.3, ProDos, or copy II+.  So
>figured it must be the drive. So I pluged in a Disk II and controller card
>from my IIe with the same results.  I have tried several disks and it either
>comes up with "disk not found" "Disk is write protected" or  "I/O Error"  It
>can read them all just fine.  What do 'ya guys think ?  (and yes the disks
>were not write protected)
>
>Thanks,
>Drew
>
>