At 09:34 -0700 9/24/09, jjv wrote:
I am not quite sure, but I believe the hole in the upper left corner has to be 
covered with scotch tape.
joe

My SE/30 using 7.5 knows how to format double sided disks for HFS - well the 
last time I actually did it was a decade ago and it's possible that I changed 
the disk drive sometime before that.

In general it's never a good idea to plug that second hole though. It's there 
to indicate the type of magnetic surface that the disk is made with. The 
official high density two sided disks require a higher magnetizing field than 
the single sided jobs and the drive needs to know that.

If you tell the drive to treat a double sided disk as an older single side 
device it may wind up with its bits not fully saturated and subject to failure.

But it's worth a try to see if the SE/30 really has a single sided drive in it.
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