[Coco] 3.5" DSDD media availability

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Been a while getting around to this, but I distinctly remember that I 
did not have a DOS machine early on in my use of the 3.5" DD drive on 
the CoCo.  I formatted the HD DOS disks to DD with a Powerbook 150 at 
the time, and then used the CoCo to reformat to OS9 since the CoCo 
wouldn't do anything with a Mac formatted floppy.

Just to double check, a few minutes ago I threw a HD (IBM format) into 
my 6100 with some black electrician's tape over the hole, and the 6100 
immediately asked if I wanted to initialize the strange critter.  I 
turned it into a Mac DD, then into a DOS DD.  It definitely still 
works.  Don't know why it didn't work in New Mexico.

On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 09:15  PM, David wrote:

> As a bypass for this.. anyone tried reformatting an IBM 2HD 3.5inch 
> (1.44mb)  as a MAC DD (720k or 800k or the like) disk, or the other 
> way around? (MAC HD as IBM DD)
>
> Maybe this will enable a bypass of the 'cant reformat', as the formats 
> used on the disks are very unrelated?
>
> Or am I up the wrong tree?
>
> - David
>
>
> Neil Morrison wrote:
>
>> Buy a video tape eraser and bulk erase them first. They'll work OK.
>>
>> http://store.yahoo.com/soundtract/diskettes.html has a sale on, $1.75 
>> for
>> 10. But I buy mine at swap meets or thrifts.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Watts" 
>> <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net>
>>
>>
>>> I have found that to be a problem on my Mac also.  Once a HD disk has
>>> been formatted as such, I have been unable to reformat it as DD on 
>>> the
>>> Mac, even with the hole taped over.  Never could figure that one out.
>>> The DSDD media at $0.36 each sounds a little high.  Guess it will do 
>>> as
>>> a last resort.
>>>
>>> Cheers,   Griz
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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