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Article #14687Re: Writing 360K diskettes on 1.2 Mb dri
From: David Reed
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1986 00:38
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1986 00:38
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By way of comment from my experience: I have found with the great variety and
numbers of computers I use around here that:
a 360K disc formatted in a 1.2M drive (with the /4 option to format as
a 360K disc, of course) canNOT be read in about 1/3 of the 360K
drives when a 1.2M drive also writes the data to the disc, but
a 360K disc formatted in a 360K drive and written to by a 1.2M drive
can NEARLY always be read in a 360K drive.
Most of our new machines have ONLY 1.2M drives for floppies, but we have a
couple of machines with a 360K drive installed as a second floppy drive simply
for the above purpose, to format a 360K disc so that it will more likely be
readable by an older 360K drive (even if it might have data written on it by
the 1.2M drives).
-David M. Reed hplsla!davidr
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