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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.2meg/360k compatibility question
Message-ID: <5566@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 16:40:12 GMT
References: <IYiAOwy00UhBI1IEMx@andrew.cmu.edu> <660011@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <660011@otter.hpl.hp.com> asl@otter.hpl.hp.com (Lawrence Ang) writes:
>Try writing to the 360K disk in a 1.2M drive, treating it as drive B:.
>This solution works for some systems, and allows true 360K drives to read
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the disk thereafter.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I SERIOUSLY doubt it.  See my posting with the "schematic" of data tracks
for an intuitive "explanation" of the problem and it's lack of solution.


kEITHe