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In article <172@nesac2.att.com> jec@nesac2.att.com (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes:
>In article <10152@saturn.ucsc.edu>, ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes:
>] The 1.2 meg drive writes a narrower, lower density track than a 360k.
>] The 360k drive has a *real* hard time trying to read disks written
>] on a 1.2 meg drive. (Read: don't do it!)
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Sorry, but I can't agree with this ^^^^^^.
>
>I've been developing in-house software on an AT class machine for over a year.
>I distribute that software on 360K floppies which are INITAILLY FORMATTED and
>written in the 1.2 meg drive.                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
Well, as they say, you can't  argue with success. I don't know why you can, 
but I know many can't. We have tried formatting a 360k on a 1.2m, copying
files to it, then reading those file in another computer which only has a
360k drive. The 360k didn't even see it as a DOS disk. If people want to
try this, I guess I would say they should test it carefully before trusting
it.			-ted-

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