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Re: Formatting HD disks as 800K volumes

Subject: Re: Formatting HD disks as 800K volumes
From: zwsdotcom@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:44:33 -0000
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On Aug 27, 8:33 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:

> Some drive mechanisms used the HD hole to sense (and to expect) HD
> media and HD formatting.  A ProDOS filesystem wouldn't be

As far as I'm aware, HD 3.5" mechanisms of all flavors (Mac, PC and
other) _ALL_ use the HD hole to sense HD media and change the spindle
motor speed - 300rpm for DD and 360rpm for HD. So you MUST match the
presence or absence of a hole to the media formatting, otherwise an HD
drive won't read it.

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