On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:38:39, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > It has been suggested that old lower density floppies can be used on > later drives........dont do it! > It works just well enough to get you into trouble! > Reading is not the problem, it is writing. Drives with more cyliders > have thinner data tracks and on a lower format will leave more vacant > magnetic real-estate. This is a drama if there is data in this space > and you try to read the floppy on a lower density drive, or another > high density drive with slightly different alignment. I may be > talking BS here when it comes to 720Kb drives.... most of my bad > experience is with 360K disks in 1.2 Mb drives. > Kali-- > http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali Got this one in the inbox on august 3rd! Kali when did you sent it? Bastiaan -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
