Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!mvolo From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 1.2meg/360k compatibility question Summary: I have a NEC -- 360 <--> 1.2 it works!!! Message-ID: <7362@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 22 Jul 89 03:58:30 GMT References: <2250@astroatc.UUCP> <11079@ibmpcug.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 19 Zounds! it was there all the time. Got a NEC 1.2 M for my IBM PC a year ago. Have been following to the discussion on 1.2 M compatibil- ity for 360K diskettes. I bulk erased two 360 K diskettes and formatted one in the 360k drive and one in the 1.2M drive. Then I created a test file in each drive and overwrote it multiple times with the other drive and also with the original drive. Both drives could read both test files no matter which was the last drive to have overwritten the file last. The acid test was that the 360 could read test files that had been overwritten by the supposedly narrow-tracked drive, regard- less of which drive had done the formatting, and regardless of which drive had done the last overwrite. I assume the overwriting was takin place in the same sector as the file remained relatively short. Any other tests I should do? M Volow, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705 mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP 919 286 0411