30 November 2002, 22:36 | #1 |
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Disk is write protected ?
Just a quick question for someone......when i try to format
an amiga floppy 720kb ?.......sometimes it says it is write protected and its not,so it has to start the whole format procedure over again ! |
30 November 2002, 22:38 | #2 |
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is this real amiga or emulated or indeed are you formatting a 1.44 to 720 in windows?
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30 November 2002, 22:42 | #3 |
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Real Amiga & real amiga disk !!
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30 November 2002, 22:58 | #4 |
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ok...
what program are you using to format disks...? i have had this problem before on an A1200 (internal drive), could be the drive giving up, if you load up WB, does the drive show DF0:???? (sometimes without a disk insert) and aren't disk 880kb formatted, 902Kb unformatted! |
30 November 2002, 23:02 | #5 |
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Your probably right about the disk formatting capacity (880kb)
When it boots up it never comes up with the problem you mentioned. I'm using the workbench's format command....... |
30 November 2002, 23:06 | #6 |
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can you get a hold of x-copy (which has a format tool), i can up a disk to the zone if you need it!!!
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30 November 2002, 23:09 | #7 |
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Yes Please !!
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30 November 2002, 23:51 | #8 |
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i presume to can transfer adfs to the Amiga
scroll to the bottom of the Zone and download - Chaos Utilities Disk - if it has gone by the time you read this, then reply and i'll up it again Last edited by Djay; 01 December 2002 at 01:30. |
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Unformatted disks are (roughly) "1Mb" but assigning a definitive term to the size of an unformatted floppy does not really make sense - it is more to define the type of disk that the actual physical storage capacity - because it really depends how you use it that depends on how much data you can get on it . With the "DiskSpace" filesystem alone (used on some AUI cover disks), you can squeeze 984Kb on a disk... And that is without any "special" tricks. |
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I remember using the DiskSpace format to store some of my files and mounting DS0: - it was pretty cool at the time!
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