Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ginosko!husc6!ogccse!cvedc!nosun!tektronix!psueea!parsely!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re^2: 1.2meg/360k compatibility question Message-ID: <1591@bucket.UUCP> Date: 30 Jul 89 06:11:24 GMT References: <2250@astroatc.UUCP> <11079@ibmpcug.UUCP> <7362@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR. Lines: 15 [description of tests involving overwriting a test file with *itself*] [removed] Try overwriting with a *different* preferably one with the bits swapped. I *have* seen the compatability problem. We had to swap the A and B drives in a Compaq so that the (novice) users would write files on a 1.2M drive and ship them off to a department that only had PCs. This was after errors on the order of 2 a week (say 1 per 50 or 60 disks). -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short