format PC floppy to use on Amiga?

[motrucker]

So is it just a question of cover the High Density hole insert in the Amiga and click format? Or I still need CrossDos or some other tool? My aim is to have disks which I can boot from. From what I found out on the net, using CrossDos to format a disk means you'll need CrossDos to read the content of that disk and therefore impossible to use such disks unless in Workbench.

That's the problem, as long as your Amiga drive is in 100% great shape. The high density disks have more tracks, that are much smaller than the double density disks - so alignment, etc. is more important than ever.
But as long as you cover that HD hole, they should work on your Amiga.

PS - do not use transparent tape! The drive may still "see" the hole. Use electrical tape.

[motrucker]

No they don't. They have exactly the same 80 tracks.

I'll be damned. I guess I must have look at the 135 tpi years ago, and misread that as the number of tracks. Thank you for pointing that out.
That makes this question all the confusing for me then. Why are HD disks so hard to use on (some?) Amigas? After reading the DD and HD disks specs, it does not look there should be any problem.

[motrucker]

Yes, but only Amiga makes it possible. (880k drive = 720k pc, HD drive = 1.44 & 720k)

smerf

hope you loonies can understand this, if not I will try to make it simpler.
Please read whole blocked paragraph above, my answers to each question is answered within.

  Another sexual intellectual, huh?