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In article <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
>>In article <jeric.67@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> jeric@berkp.uadv.uci.edu (Jeric Woo) writes:
>>>
>
>Yes there are physical differences in the media.  The differences are more
>apparent on 5.25" diskettes then on 3.5".
>
>>The LD drive heads are larger then the HD heads.  As a result the LD heads
>>are reading more then one track at a time on the HD disk. Track 0 isn't
>>bad, it's just smaller then the LD drive is capible of reading it.
>
>I don't believe that is correct.  If you look at a floppy disk they aren't
>composed of tracks of magnetic media.  The media is a continuous (sp?)
>coating on the disk.

I wasn't refering to the actual media coating on the disk. I was refering to 
the track width of the formatted tracks on the disk. There are areas on a
floppy that although are coated with the magnetic material, are not written
with data. 

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