At 10:28 PM -0700 8/28/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> > 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>
So using high density means that the disks might go to brown?
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