Stuart Bell wrote: >No, no, no, no, no. > >It'll work, but the magnetic characteristics of the formulations used >to coat 800K and 1.4Mb floppies are sufficiently different to make >unsafe the storage and long term recovery of data in the manner >suggested. > >
Always found this mac quirk interesting. The amiga formats anything to 880k, I'm yet to lose anything due to media failure and thats years not weeks. Sadly I don't have any macs that need 800k discs to play with it myself. Is it something to do with the way the 800k mac floppy drive works rather than the media? -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
