On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:01:14 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>> Because you need to have a 720 floppy drive in order to make a diskcopy
> of a 720 floppy. The DISKCOPY command will not work right unless you are
> working with identical media and perfectly compatible drives. Most of the
> original software disks from some of the best good vintage years was
> supplied on 720 floppies.<<
> AFAIK, all 1.44 MB floppy drives are capable of reading, writing and
> formatting 720 KB floppies. In order to format a 1.44 MB floppy as a 720 KB
> floppy, *and* to use diskcopy, all you have to do is tape over the hole in
> the upper left corner of the disk. (I use black plastic electric tape.)
> Format the disk as a 720 KB disk and leave the tape in place and your drive
> will think that it is a 720 KB disk.
Hello Roger:
You are right; however, it is believed by many, myself included, that a
real 720K floppy drive does a better job. Real 720K disks formatted on a
real 720K floppy drive are believed to maintain the data better. As for
myself, this belief is partially based on personal experience. It is
possible that the belief might be just a popular superstition. I don't
know for sure. Anyway, the more harmless variety of superstitions will
remain with us even when we are proven wrong. I don't want to get into a
flame war on this subject. Those who are seeking to defeat superstition
can easily find some very prevalent and very harmful ones out there. This
would be worthwhile.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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