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Posted By

Gaia
on 2001-10-23

Maybe a solution...

I've faced the problem a while back when I tried to reuse my old PC HD disks on the good old 1541... with no luck, of course.

Apparently, Imation still seems to be supporting the 5.25" DS-DD diskette type (see URL):

http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_family_generic_1.jhtml?Id=IM_FAM120

I've heard the same about Maxell, but I couldn't find anything to prove that.

Hope this helped

Posted By

Gaia
on 2001-10-23

Maxell

Well, I've not found anything in HTML format, but there's a PDF file here:

http://www.maxell-data.com/prods/pdfs/floppy.pdf

which is actually listing 5.25" DS-DD floppies...

Posted By

JamesC
on 2001-10-23

Disk Drive users, any advice?

I have just a few DS-DD 5.25" diskettes left, but I have a large quantity of DS-HD 5.25" diskettes.

Standard 1541 or 1571 formatting on these HD diskettes causes a "Bad Disk" error.

Sometime in the past I had instructions on how to fool the 1541 to go ahead and format a high-density diskette in standard Commodore mode. However, those instructions are long since lost.

Does anyone else out there know what I'm talking about, and remember how to do this?

James