In article <camcmnv4uneq3rtrsshbv2bbuzbivgk+qxpbxbyuzsprm9o2...@mail.gmail.com>, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll start by saying this isn't an M100 or TPDD discussion, but just > looking to understand something.
> I have a Tandy Coco3 with a 3.5 inch floppy drive. The drive is a > standard PC drive and it is working well. > Does anyone know what's going on? The media itself in a 1.44M disk is different, "denser" in some way. It needs a stronger magnetic field for it to be written reliably. Even with a 1.44M drive, writing at Double Density rather than High Density just isn't going to be reliable. It can be done, yes, tape over the HD hole, but the lifetime of the write will be from hours to weeks. And yes, I found this out the hard way... :-( > thx > Steve -- Willard Goosey [email protected] Socorro, New Mexico, USA I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. --Robert E. Howard
