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
Ahhh...
How can one tell what type of drive one has? I just reconfig'd a 1.2MB
to 360K and installed MS-DOS 4.01 sucessfully on an old 286. (it was the
only OS available <g>)
I assume the track width is determined by the head construction; but
they all look the same on the outside :-(
- Pete Randolph -
- Morristown Corners, Vermont -
