I thought the Amiga's used that crazy formatting method that the Apples were also culpable of? Oddball sector sizes or some nonsense...
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Nelson <da...@davidnelson.net> wrote: > I'm kinda rusty on floppy disks but I think the 800k issue is something you > can solve by putting a piece of tape over the corner hole... not the > read-write lock, but the other one. > Or is this a different issue than the one I'm remembering?... :) > -David > > From: Joseph Weston Morgan <morg...@efn.org> > Reply To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org> > Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 12:04:24 PM > Subject: [Eug-lug] floppy disk > > > > I cannot figure out how to format a floppy disk that is both acceptable > to either XP, or Linux and Amiga. There are still a few things to get > off of the old Amiga 500, but the floppies need to be formated to at > most 880kb and I cannot figure out how to dumb the format command down > to this level. > > Wes > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > -- Andrew Jackman kd7...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
