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I don't know if you know this or not, but I figured out something thats pretty dope. I don't have a zip drive on my 60, I use the good ol' fashioned 3.5 dd's. But one thing I learned about that drive is that formating disc takes a hell of a long time, and I got stuck with one of those route66 drives that can't format (till I figured out the jumpers via this site, props) So, out of frustration I learned that you can format your disc on a pc. Just make sure you formating to the dd setting (I think it's 712kb, you 'll see when the menu comes up when you click format, you have two options). I'm not using win 98 either. I got 2k on this machine. There you go. Hope it save you some time if your stuck with 3.5's like me.

Nice tip. I'm running Windows2000 too and it worked for me.

It'll also prolong the life of you MPC60 disk drive.

Good looking out! Nice tip!

What's the kb size you get after formatting? I always found that i got like 782k or around there on most disks when i formatted them on the 60, I think the computer format gave less.

Still a very nice tip. Glad the jumper info helped you out.

I'm seeing 713kb. I guess thats the price to pay for effieciency. But, not a huge lose.

yeah it varies a bit from disk to disk, but the 60 format gives somewhere between 770-790k. Not a huge loss. I wonder if the MPC editor has a format function for floppies.

" I wonder if the MPC editor has a format function for floppies"

It may be easier to just format one on the MPC, then use disk imaging software to pull the image from the floppy. Then when you need to "format" a disk, just write the image from the computer to a disk.

Effectively a low-level disk copy.

Nice! Thanks for the tip. I should try that out but I hardly use floppies on the 60 anymore.