Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Peter May:


 RJT> --
 RJT> Formatting could be a problem,  though,  if you're trying to put a
 RJT> HD drive in where a DD was before.  The number of tracks is wrong,
 RJT> and if you double-step it then you still have a narrower track
 RJT> which could be a bit of a problem if there were data on the floppy
 RJT> written by the older drives.

I've bypassed that one by using a bulk tape eraser to wipe all info on the
disk, then let the current drive format a really blank disk.  That might be
an option here.

    Everett 
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