--- Steve Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 9:41 PM -0700 8/28/01, Andrew W. Hill wrote:
> >Can be an advantage though. You can pile it
> higher. Plus, if you
> >live on a hill...
> >
> >Okay, I gotta stop before I get banned again
>
> Just snip out the bad shhtuff and you'll be fine.
> As long as we
> are talking about a brown-load of 800K floppies,
> what is wrong with
> taking a double density or high density floppy and
> formatting it 800K?
<Mr. Science>
The word for today is Coercivity.
The magnetic particles used on a High Density
diskette have a higher coercivity than the particles
used on a 720/800K diskette. The high density drive
uses a stronger magnetic field to "coerce" the
particles' polarity to change. A 720/800K drive's
magnetic field isn't strong enough to fully change
the polarity of high density disks.
</Mr. Science>
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