You first have to set the density via MyDOS's configure drive menu and then you can change densities easily. MyDOS has this bug where if the desired density is different from what the disk in the drive already is currently, then you can't get there from here by issuing standard Percom Blocks to change the density of the disk like that. If you are using MyDOS 4.50 or above your problems are probably with the MyDOS format bug where you can't change densities during a format like some ATR utilities might be trying to do. Is there any way to format these or is the 1050 drive quite specific about what type, make of floppy it uses? Trak AT-D4 DS SD/DD, printer port, print buffer Percom RFD44-S2 DS SD/DD dual drives, master The following information is from Atarimania. There are 360k drives other than the XF551 but they are fairly rare, they also use a different track layout than the XF551 for side 2. There are exceptions to the hub ring 'rule', but I've never seen one. That dbl sided floppy can only be read on a XF-551, so it is better to Make a 360K double sided disk, I think that is the XF-551. Only one A8 floppy I'm familiar with can format both sides and The left side of a floppy and make it a 'flippy', format the back side. Most Atari 8-bit floppy drives are single density, meaning they can only format and hold 90K on a single side. I can't remember how much high density floppies hold, I'm sure it was more than 1 meg, seems like 1.2 megs. Will format to 90K single density or 180K double density and they have a hub ring, a ring of shiny plastic around the center big hole. High density floppies don't have the hub ring. You can't use high density 5.25" floppies.
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