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Article #8639Re: Reading/writing 360k diskettes on a
From: ddrex
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 23:36
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 23:36
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>The point of all this is that you don't NEED a special copy program. >If you want to copy from a 1.2Mb to a 360k (or vice versa), >the COPY command works fine. If you only have one drive, it still >doesn't matter since PC/MS-DOS checks the formatting before writing. >You can also use the DISKCOPY program, provided the diskettes are >formatted by the same version format program. You're lucky. I have not been so fortunate. The drives on my XT clone will sometimes read disks written on an AT, sometimes not. The clone is running PCDOS 3.1, which is what the AT was also running. I don't know if a special copy rpogram would help; I haven't tried it.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!sundc!oktext!occrsh!occrsh.UUCP!gorgo.UUCP!authorplaceholder From: ddrex@gorgo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Reading/writing 360k diskettes on a Message-ID: <12800027@gorgo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 18:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: gorgo.12800027 Posted: Wed Oct 29 18:36:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 14:26:51 EST References: <564@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP:-56400:gorgo.UUCP:12800027:000:656 Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!ddrex Oct 29 17:36:00 1986