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# Quick Notes for Gold Card Users

Some 1.44 Meg drives can be set by the jumper pins to NOT check for the additional hole that identifies the disk as a high density disk. I inadvertently set my drive that way, and find that it automatically formats regular (cheaper) 3 1/2″ 720K disks to 1.44 megs without any problems.