Sam Heywood wrote:
>>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.<<
I remembered the problem as being with 1.2 MB drives and formatting a 360 KB
disk in them. There was a problem with aligning the read-write head with
the formatted track. IIRC, the problem never existed in the 1.44 MB drives.
No flame war!
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
