30 Apr
2024
30 Apr
'24
6:12 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 12:48 PM John Robertson via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Yup, that's all I used to do. Some scotch tape over the floppy disk hole to
make the system see it as DD. If it didn't automatically format as 720, you
could specify size or sector count with format.com in dos.
I did hear folks say it wasn't always reliable (similar to 5.25 disks being
formated on a high density drive) but I never saw any problems in my
limited use.
On 2024/04/30 10:08 a.m., Anders Nelson via cctalk
wrote:
(Snip)
is it
possible to use a 1.44MB disk and just format it as a 720K disk
you could
format it as 720 - covering the 1.44 hole