[Tfug] 3.5 DSDD floppies?

[Rich]

Yeah, this always used to work with the ST, Amiga, Mac, and anything  
else that wanted DSDD but all we could buy was DSHD -- "anything  
else" is music gear. They all used the same Sony drive, iirc. Only  
the Amiga had some extra electronics to do something nifty with the  
tracks to get 800K out of 'em.

Rich.

On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:24 pm, Jeffry Johnston wrote:

> I have a couple of them I think.. they are quite old.  Have you tried
> taping over the hole on a HD floppy?  It's the hole without the write
> protect slider in it.. cover both sides with tape and at least
> computer floppy drives will think it's 720k.  It also doubles as a
> "security by obscurity" way of making private data unreadable.. just
> take the tape off :)
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I thought I'd check here first to see if, perchance, someone out  
>> there
>>  in tfug-land might have a few 3.5" DSDD (720k) floppies sitting  
>> around
>>  that they might want to sell or give away.  I have an old piece of
>>  music gear that uses them, and I want to make a boot disk for it.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  --
>>  John
>>
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