false preformatted ED disk - how to erase?

[Andreas Berger]

I have a bunch of ED disk, wich has someone formatted to 1,44 MB. If i try to
format that in my NeXT the capcity is greyed out and set to 1,44 MB.
How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB?

regards, Andreas

[David Evans]

In article <2tqknmF22mvipU1@uni-berlin.de>,
Andreas Berger <a_berger@despammed.com> wrote:I have a bunch of ED disk, wich has someone formatted to 1,44 MB. If i try toformat that in my NeXT the capcity is greyed out and set to 1,44 MB.How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB?

Can you be more aggressive using "disk" from the command line?

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[Andreas Berger]

David Evans schrieb:
set to 1,44 MB. How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB?
Can you be more aggressive using "disk" from the command line?

isn't "disk" only for harddrives and other SCSI stuff?
I have found out a funny solution. Under MSDOS there is a program called
vgacopy, wich is able to format until 2,88 MB.
If i do so, i get all tracks as errors on disk because i have only a HD-
drive, but, if i now try to format with NeXT, i get offered the 2,88 MB
format back again :-).

Are there some third party tools to format disk?

regards, Andreas

[David Evans]

In article <2tqm6qF21lt5oU1@uni-berlin.de>,
Andreas Berger <a_berger@despammed.com> wrote:David Evans schrieb:set to 1,44 MB. How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB? Can you be more aggressive using "disk" from the command line?isn't "disk" only for harddrives and other SCSI stuff?

Hrm...I thought it could do floppies and ODs too, but it's been ten
years or more since I last used it.

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David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Research Associate, Ph.D. Candidate http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual

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In <cl984d$dmq$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: In article <2tqm6qF21lt5oU1@uni-berlin.de>, Andreas Berger <a_berger@despammed.com> wrote:David Evans schrieb: >set to 1,44 MB. How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB? Can you be more aggressive using "disk" from the command line?isn't "disk" only for harddrives and other SCSI stuff? Hrm...I thought it could do floppies and ODs too, but it's been ten years or more since I last used it.

Hmmm, sounds more like fdform...

Henry

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:26:56 +0000, Henry wrote:
In <cl984d$dmq$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: In article <2tqm6qF21lt5oU1@uni-berlin.de>, Andreas Berger <a_berger@despammed.com> wrote:David Evans schrieb:> >set to 1,44 MB. How can i get these floppies back to 2,88 MB?> Can you be more aggressive using "disk" from the command line?isn't "disk" only for harddrives and other SCSI stuff? Hrm...I thought it could do floppies and ODs too, but it's been ten years or more since I last used it. Hmmm, sounds more like fdform...

Magnet?