Re: Why would I want to format a 1.4 meg diskette in ProDOS? ?

[tsetse@helix.net (an ugly bag of mostly water)]

Jason Jeffries (JJeffries@psu.edu) wrote:

: A Mac with a 1.44meg drive (Superdrive, if you prefer) will complain if
: you insert a HD disk formatted to 800k. This can be quite a pain if you
: happen to have such disks--like I do, since I tend to use America
: Online disks for lowly sneakernet chores (because AOL sends them to me
: for free), and they're HD. I need to use these disks in both my GS and
: various Macs. The only real solution is to cover the HD notch with
: tape. The Mac just doesn't realize that it possible that someone would
: want 800k on a 1.4meg disk.

i hope you're not storing valuable data this way. my experience has been 
that high density disks don't reliably format at low densities - 
something about the high density media being sort of too fine for the 
relatively course signals/magnetic fields of low density drives.
(boy, nice precise explaination there.  =< 

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