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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)
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[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