What happens if I try to play a Hi-MD formatted disk in a non-Hi-MD machine?
A non-Hi-MD machine can read neither the 1GB Hi-MD media nor an original Minidisc reformatted in Hi-MD format. The result depends upon which of these two are used: • If a 1GB Hi-MD is inserted, a std-MD unit will report a disc read-error. • If std-MD media reformatted to Hi-MD is inserted, a std-MD unit will display “Hi-MD Disc” as the disk title. It will show two tracks, both tracks are named “Hi-MD Disc” with track-1 in mono, track-2 in LP4. Neither track will play (there is silence and the time counter doesn’t show anything). The disk always shows no free space regardless of how much space is really available when used on a Hi-MD machine.
