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30 November 2002, 22:36
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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 ! |
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30 November 2002, 22:38
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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
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Real Amiga & real amiga disk !!
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30 November 2002, 22:58
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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! |
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30 November 2002, 23:02
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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....... |
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30 November 2002, 23:06
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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
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Yes Please !!
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30 November 2002, 23:51
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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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01 December 2002, 05:59
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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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01 December 2002, 09:53
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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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01 December 2002, 10:09
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