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Re: [kawaisynths] Re: kawai q80 disk unavailable error message

2013-03-12 by Jason Adkins

Hi you are probably right technically but have used taped up HD disks  
on Roland MC50,S330,EPS16+ and Atari ST's with no problems but yeah  
wouldn't want to archive anything important using HD in DD drive but  
ok to get old machines working.


On 11 Mar 2013, at 06:30, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> On 11/03/13 01:15, jusufzemplin wrote:
>> Hi, there exists some trick . I used HD floppies , with filled small
>> window . There are two small windows  - one for write-preventing, one
>> fpr format recognition. So , if I can remember, there`s necessary to
>> fill both small windows. http://www.floppydisk.com/ at the end of
>
> That doesn't work, because the magnetic stuff on HD disks is  
> completely
> different from DD disks.  DD drives don't produce a strong enough
> magnetic field to write on HD media, and don't have sensitive enough
> amplifiers to recover the signal.
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> Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
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