Hi!
Quoting "Andrew, a Mac Freak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Right now I wish my SE non-HDFD could do that... the HDD's corrupt (or
> broken) and my Beige G3 won't write to my 800k MacPaint floppy because
> it says its locked. I know that on 800k floppies there's only one hole,
> so to newer drives I assume they always think that the floppies are
> locked when they're not.
The hole on the left tells the drive that it's a high density disk. The
hole on the right has the same function for both kinds, that is, closed allows
write, open locks the disk.
Willi
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