Re: Disks for 3.5" drive

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

The Jeffster! (jeffster@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have an Apple 3.5" disk drive, and when I see that there is an 800k 
: capacity of the disks, I worry, because double-sided, or "low-density" 
: disks are formatted to 720k with an IBM. Are regular low-density disks 
: usable on the drive? If not, then can I use a high-density disk and just 
: have the drive format it to 800k? thanks in advance.

Just take those 720k disks and reformat them to 800k.  The difference has
to do with the fact that the Apple hardware is a little more sophisticated
than the IBM hardware, and crams more data onto the disk.

HD disks will also work, but you could run into problems when you try to
share files with Macintoshes if you forget to cover up the "1.44MB" ID
hole when inserting the disk into an HD-compatible drive.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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