Re: [tlug] DD floppies

["Jim BLACKSON" <blackson@example.com>]

On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:27 AM, Brett Robson wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:20:01 +0900
> "Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Does it have the capability to format disks on its own? 
> 
> Yes it does and it happily formatted HD discs. After lots of
> experimenting I have realised it is something to do with the disc drive
> in my Win XP machine. Every other computer can handle the disc I
> formatted in the midi player except the XP box, so it looks like a new
> disc drive and I'll be right.

FWIW, my colleague tells me that there is no GUI menu entry for 
formatting a 720KB 2DD floppy on an XP box, but you can do it 
at the command prompt:

	format /t:80 /n:9 A:

More details are here under "USB Floppy drive YD-8U10":
http://www.yedata.com/support/WinXPcompliance.shtml

Hope this helps,
jimb.
Jim Blackson
Ontrack Data Recovery / Y-E Data, Inc.
http://www.ontrack-japan.com