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Article #12322Re: MacPlus question
From: David C.
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:43
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:43
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David Morrison <davidmor@excite.com> writes: > > I have a vague recollection that the 1.44MB floppies use a different > magnetic material to the lower capacity ones. True. 1.44M media has a higher coercivity. Meaning it requires a stronger field to write the data. An 800K drive could have problems with one. > Drives that know about 1.44MB floppies *might* be able to use them at > 800KB, but drives that only know about 800KB diskettes would have > problems. This is the theory. In actual practice, I've taped over plenty of 1.44M disks (since getting DSDD media is difficult these days) and have yet to have a problem in my IIgs's 800K floppy drives. -- David
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X-Google-Thread: feb82,37621ba9a33f6672 X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,37621ba9a33f6672 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d4e81fc7!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: MacPlus question References: <ZbVke.390$BR4.178@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <FTkle.2034$BR4.401@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <nobody-6FEA58.11265326052005@comcast.dca.giganews.com> <SHGle.3409$BR4.2701@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <nobody-D81D6B.12152327052005@comcast.dca.giganews.com> <jcSle.3884$BR4.3753@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <JnYle.4377$BR4.2785@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <davidmor-DF0783.22232529052005@duster.adelaide.on.net> From: shamino@techie.com (David C.) Organization: David's house of kumquats Mail-Copies-To: never Message-ID: <m2wtpdiwig.fsf@qqqq.invalid> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:43:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.149.110.191 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1117662185 66.149.110.191 (Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:43:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:43:05 PDT