On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
Mind in my previous job I had to take a drill to a
720K disk that a
studenet had formatted as a 1.44MB disk on his Archemedes, oddly the PC
could not read it. Once the hole was drilled it worked fine.
Was this just one model of Archemedes that had this 'feature' or was it
Acorn deciding that they could ignore the standard ?
It wasn't ONLY Acorn.
Most of the early PS/2 3.5" drives had no media sensor.