Has anyone seen a good solution for 3.5" commodore and Amiga floppies that can also deal with Apple's problematic 400k and 800k formats? Justin > On Jan 20, 2014, at 16:23, Rob Clarke <crock@clarke-family.org.uk> wrote: > > >> When it comes to 3.5" media, the difference between DD (600 Oe) and HD >> (750 Oe) apparently is less, so it may still work to format a 1.44 MB >> floppy disk as double density, at least for a while. > > When I was in my first summer job in 1987 (paying my Dad back the money he used to buy me an Amiga 1000), I suddenly had access to a 'limitless' supply of pre-formatted HD 3.5" floppies from the office store cupboard. I was terribly disappointed when none of them would work reliably in the Amiga, though it probably saved me from getting fired for stealing. :-) > > Years later I found out that I could make them work by wiping them with a bulk-eraser (very powerful elctro-magnet) first. > > Rob > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-01-27 10:03:14
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