Mochatea396
Experienced Member
Greetings fellow enthusiasts,
Can someone explain to me the purpose of putting tape over the second hole on HD 3.5 floppies? I ask because when I format a 1.44 HD disk on one of my Apple ii drives (they are 800k drives) ive never used tape and never had a problem formatting or writing to these disks. And the disks all boot fine in other systems. A friend was telling me unless he puts tape on an HD disk he can’t even get the disk to format on an Apple drive. This is mainly why I’m asking. I understand his disks not formatting without the tape based on how the tape works but why did I not have any problem? What were these disks being formatted to? And all my other drives seem to like the disks it makes. There just is inconsistency between the two of us and I’m trying to clear that up. I have a USB floppy to make disks for my PC and THAT I have to use tape or the PC won’t recognize the disk. Should I start using tape on the HD disks in my Apple drives? I’m becoming a “don’t fix what’s not broken” kind of person lately, and if they work the way I’ve been doing it maybe I’ll just keep it the way that I know works.
Hopefully someone can clear all this up for me.
Thanks
Can someone explain to me the purpose of putting tape over the second hole on HD 3.5 floppies? I ask because when I format a 1.44 HD disk on one of my Apple ii drives (they are 800k drives) ive never used tape and never had a problem formatting or writing to these disks. And the disks all boot fine in other systems. A friend was telling me unless he puts tape on an HD disk he can’t even get the disk to format on an Apple drive. This is mainly why I’m asking. I understand his disks not formatting without the tape based on how the tape works but why did I not have any problem? What were these disks being formatted to? And all my other drives seem to like the disks it makes. There just is inconsistency between the two of us and I’m trying to clear that up. I have a USB floppy to make disks for my PC and THAT I have to use tape or the PC won’t recognize the disk. Should I start using tape on the HD disks in my Apple drives? I’m becoming a “don’t fix what’s not broken” kind of person lately, and if they work the way I’ve been doing it maybe I’ll just keep it the way that I know works.
Hopefully someone can clear all this up for me.
Thanks