cool//// maybe I will bulk erase
now.
-----Original Message-----Ah now I see the problem. When my disk went bad I searched for a disk
From: Steve <Steveb48@...>
To: prophet2000@yahoogroups.com <prophet2000@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:49 AM
Subject: [prophet2000] Re: I trying to find sample disks... (Prophet 2000)
from an old IBM AT. Fortunatly, I only need to go to my garage. Bulk
erasing a floppy will not damage the Prophet. It will erase everything
on the disk which is what you need to do.
Steve
--- In prophet2000@y..., Sevo Stille wrote:
> Duc Luu wrote:
>
> > Wincountry installed new os and 512k including a new diskdrive
from the
> > prophet 3000. They said it couldn't format disks. Maybe you are
right,
> > but I'm reluctant to try. I do'nt want to damage the unit/
>
>
> This presumably means they installed a 1.44MB drive - which can't
format
> both HD disks (these get formatted as 1.44, which is obviously useless)
> and preformatted DD disks (as the narrower heads on HD drives can't
> reliably remove the old formatting from the DD heads). You will have to
> locate unformatted DD disks, or at the very least unformatted HD disks
> on which you would have to stick a bit of non-transparent tape over the
> HD hole.
>
> Sevo
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