Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!lodzins From: lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Floppy disks on 520ST Keywords: floppy disk format Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 89 14:46:24 GMT References: <955@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 I have an external double sided Atari drive (I think it is a 314) which can handle disks formatted to 82-83 tracks. The drive in my 1040 doesn't like these disks and causes a lot of read/write errors. If you go over the standard format, you may run into reliability problems. I try to keep to the standard format disks. I may get an extrak 100K with some other formats, but if I lose the data it isn't worth it. -- Dean Lodzinski CSRA19@TURBO.Kean.edu or lodzins@pilot.njin.net 47 Mercury Circle Dean Lodzinski on FoReM FNET at node 133 South Amboy, NJ 08879 D.Lodzinski on GEnie. 73727,1641 on CompuServe USA (In order of importance)