the pickle wrote: >>Always found this mac quirk interesting. >>The amiga formats anything to 880k, I'm yet to lose anything due to >> >> >That's because the Amigas can write slightly more tracks on the drive. I >remember someone around here had a good explanation of it, but it's nowhere >near as different as, say, writing 1.4MB of data on an 800K disk, or vice versa. >
Extra sector or something. You can get 1760k but its another story >>Is it something to do with the way the 800k mac floppy drive works >>rather than the media? >> >> >No; it's the media. > The FAQ has this: Gregg Eshelman notes the following, from the 2d Edition of /Upgrading and Repairing PCs/: An 800K Mac floppy drive doesn't use a strong enough magnetic field to properly record data onto 1.44 MB disks. Is the glass half empty or half full? Cheers -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
