[Coco] 3.5" DSDD media availability

[David]

As a bypass for this.. anyone tried reformatting an IBM 2HD 3.5inch 
(1.44mb)  as a MAC DD (720k or 800k or the like) disk, or the other way 
around? (MAC HD as IBM DD)

Maybe this will enable a bypass of the 'cant reformat', as the formats 
used on the disks are very unrelated?

Or am I up the wrong tree?

- David


Neil Morrison wrote:

>Buy a video tape eraser and bulk erase them first. They'll work OK.
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>http://store.yahoo.com/soundtract/diskettes.html has a sale on, $1.75 for
>10. But I buy mine at swap meets or thrifts.
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>Neil
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ray Watts" <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net>
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>>I have found that to be a problem on my Mac also.  Once a HD disk has
>>been formatted as such, I have been unable to reformat it as DD on the
>>Mac, even with the hole taped over.  Never could figure that one out.
>> The DSDD media at $0.36 each sounds a little high.  Guess it will do as
>>a last resort.
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>>Cheers,   Griz
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