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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] disk format

2008-10-11 by Alexander Guelfenburg

At 21:45 11.10.2008, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I wonder if anyone has experience with formatting used floppydisks?
>I recently found a bunch of used floppy disks that I was hoping to use
>for the IIx.
>Should I be carefull trying to format them on the IIx?
>The disk are ds/dd softsectored and seem to be in good shape.
>
>tehmftwl,
>David


As long as the disks are OK and not dusty or scratched the CMI should 
be able to format them - even if they are preformatted by another 
computer. If you need help, just drop me a note.

Cheers,
Alexander

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