Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: An Amusing Anectode (The tale of the 2 Meg disk) Message-ID: <398@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 20:09:34 EDT Article-I.D.: rocky.398 Posted: Tue Jul 7 20:09:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 06:47:27 EDT Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 20 [Initialization Failed!] A friend of mine came running into the microcomputer lab this morning, holding a 2.0 Meg 3.5" IBM disk. He said he needed to copy some stuff off the Macs. So he plugged the disk into a MacPlus, and then told it to initialize the disk as two-sided (800K). Well, the MacPlus sat there for about a minute, and then said "Initialization Failed!" So we tried again, and the same response! (Now this MacPlus can initialize normal DSDD disks, so there's nothing wrong with the machine.) So I told my friend, "the Amiga can initialize that." He said "oh, yeah, right --- if the Amiga can initialize this disk I'll give it you." We plugged the disk into the Amiga, typed "format," and after a minute of heavy grinding (this is a real old Amiga, you see, with Nov 1985 disk drives) the disk was initialized... I even put some files on it to prove to my friend that it works... Anyway, now I have a 2.0 Meg capacity floppy disk. 8-) Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu