One of our 68kMLA members here recently PM'd me about a problem he's been having trying to format 400k floppies for booting on his 128k Mac. He told me the following:

Format it as 400k by choosing 'one-sided' when clicking on Erase Disk under Special menu on System 6. I copied System 2.0 I got from this site http://www.earlymacintosh.org/disk_images.html but it still wont boot. i tried the disk on both the internal floppy drive and the external superdrive on my 128k Mac but i get a '0F0062' error.

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System 6.x allows formatting of 400k disks. I know because I've done it on my SE/30. So is there something inherent to the PowerBook 170 that would prevent a 400k disk formatted on that same PB170 from booting on a 128k Mac?

Thanks.