Hello, Guy. This might be stating the obvious, but does your 720k formatted floppy have two holes at the top ? One of them is the write protect tab, the one on the other side tells the floppy drive what size disk to expect. If the second hole is there, put a bit of sticky tape over both sides of the hole. Then try it again and see if Linux will now see it as 720k. If the ST drive is 720K only, it will ignore the hole because it does not know to look for it. In reverse, back in the days when 1.44MB floppies were twice the price of 720K ones, we used to use a soldering iron to put the hole into the other side. As I remember, none of these modified disks ever failed to format at 1.44MB, and it saved us a lot of money as poor impoverished students. Hope that helps, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: unixuser@flashmail.com [mailto:unixuser@flashmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 08:01 To: linux-users@linux.nf; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] [OT] Atari disks on Linux Does anyone have any idea how to read/write atari disks on Linux? I bought an Atari Mega ST2 without software, and I'm trying to create disks for it. It seems to use 720k floppies with a modified DOS format. I can format a 1.44MB disk on the atari as 720k, but it's useless on Linux. Thanks Guy _______________________________________________________________ Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com