Re: HD 5.25 format?

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

On 6 Dec 1996 rubywand@aol.com wrote:

> In article <585hl3$baa@jsbach.n2.net>, clairmnt@n2.net (Clairemont High
> School) writes:
> 
> >
> >Our class just got a large donation of HD 5.25 disks.
> >CopyII+ won't format them: is there any way to make them usable w/ out 
> >A// machines? 
> 
> 
>      Unfortunately, no. You will not be able to format your HD diskettes
> on Apple II 5.25" drives; nor, could you use the diskettes even should
> they, somehow, be formatted on some other device. (DOS 3.3, ProDOS, ...,
> on a II+, IIe, or IIgs ... it does not matter; you will get I/O errors.)

I have a question.  If the original poster is actually saying "is there 
any way to make the usable w/ out A// machines?" does he or she really 
want to use the disks on Apple II computers? I would assume that what 
they are saying is that they have CopyII + on a PC (I think it was developed 
for DOS, maybe?) and since they have had problems, they think it is 
because _only_ an Apple II would be able to format them.  I think the 
whole problem here is that people have been responding as if their 
request is the opposite (unless an A// machine is a special disk-formatter 
machine). (I.e. they want to use the disks on a PC).  I really don't know 
anything about PC's at all, maybe somebody could help them out?