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Article #11225Re: DS HD floppies
From: Mark Boyd
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 22:59
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 22:59
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While the difference in coercivity is large for 5.25 inch disks, about a factor of two if I recall correctly, the difference is on the order of 10 % for 3.5 inch disks. I suspect that is within manufacturing tolerances! If you try to format a 360 K to 1.2 M, you will get lots of bad blocks, almost all on the inner tracks. If you try to format 720 K as 1.44, you will get good disks. That is my experience and the experience of everybody I know who has tried it. Mark PS I find that my swiss army knife makes an adequate 720K to 1.44M disk converter. Of course I consider my swiss army knife to be the ultimate tool!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!mcnc!rock.concert.net!boyd From: boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DS HD floppies Message-ID: <1991Jun18.225904.23782@rock.concert.net> Date: 18 Jun 91 22:59:04 GMT References: <chris.3717@genly.UUCP> <1991Jun18.050747.26870@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <13217@uwm.edu> Sender: news@rock.concert.net Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville Lines: 15