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Re: Formatting HD disks as 800K volumes

Subject: Re: Formatting HD disks as 800K volumes
From: Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:46:42 +1000
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A2Pro wrote:

>     But then I tried covering up the hole on the left side of the disk
> and reinserted it into the 520c.  Viola, it was recognized as a ProDOS
> volume.  A bit of a surprise...

Yeah. Taping the hole does help, but storing data is a bit of a gamble. I've
found the TDK disks seem to be fairly tolerant of that kind of abuse. They
seem to be magnetic enough to even prevent reformatting as HD.

Tristan.

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