Re: Help with Formatting please

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <32e010c4.5193057@167.152.149.11>, drsmooth@relex.com says...

>On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 19:33:42 GMT, ab252@torfree.net (John Tilley)
>wrote:

>>Could someone answer a question for me.  I have an Apple II and can't 
>>seem to format any disks.  I was wondering if you can only format single 
>>density disks.  I was speaking with someone who said you could format 
>>double density disks, but only on the IIe.

>I just tried to format some high-density disks, and it doesn't seem to
>work at all.

High density != double density.

In "the old days" I had very few single density floppies and over a thousand 
double-density.  The Apple II, II+, //e, and my trusty Franklin ACE 1000 liked 
'em just fine, although they were not required.  It's just that it became 
difficult, rather quickly, to find single density disks.

*HIGH* density, on the other hand (as in PC 1.2MB format disks), or, for that 
matter, QUAD density disks (as in Tandy 2000 720K 5 1/4" floppies), won't work 
reliably at all.
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