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Re: [kawaisynths] Re: kawai q80 disk unavailable error message

2013-03-11 by Gordon JC Pearce

On 11/03/13 01:15, jusufzemplin wrote:
> Hi, there exists some trick . I used HD floppies , with filled small
> window . There are two small windows  - one for write-preventing, one
> fpr format recognition. So , if I can remember, there`s necessary to
> fill both small windows. http://www.floppydisk.com/ at the end of

That doesn't work, because the magnetic stuff on HD disks is completely 
different from DD disks.  DD drives don't produce a strong enough 
magnetic field to write on HD media, and don't have sensitive enough 
amplifiers to recover the signal.

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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ

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