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Offline Thorham

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Re: format PC floppy to use on Amiga?
« on: April 20, 2012, 10:41:00 PM »
Quote from: amiman99;689890
I have another idea,
Go here http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm get win95 or dos bootdisk.
Boot with one of those disks, then use the command to format for 720K disks.

Some Amiga drives don't like to format HD disks, maybe that's the problem.
The OP wants Amiga formatted disks, so this won't work.
 

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Re: format PC floppy to use on Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2012, 04:01:02 AM »
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Yes, but only Amiga makes it possible. (880k drive = 720k pc, HD drive = 1.44 & 720k)

Drive mechanisms aren't 880K. As far as I know Amigas can format double density floppies as 1MB (MFM). The controller on the computer's side determines this. Using GCR, you can fit even more on a DD floppy.