Re: low density drive in an AT

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From: jrv
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1986 15:09

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>Has he tried writing a low density(i.e. 360K) floppy in his high density 
>drive?  Both the 1.2M drives on my AT regularly write 360s
>which are readable by other IBM PCs and AT&T 6300 & 6300+.
>
>Max Robin
>AT&T Bell Laboratories
>email:whuxg!2212msr
>voice:201-386-6865

You can format, and write double density diskettes in the high density
drive on an AT. However, the experts(?), i.e. IBM's manuals, say that
this is not reliable. The disks may not be able to be read from the 360K
drive of another PC machine. Reading of any density diskette in the high
density drive is Ok.


Jim Vallino
Siemens Research and Technology Lab.
Princeton, NJ
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo,philabs}!princeton!siemens!jrv

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