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From: wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 1.2MB/360K disks and drives
Message-ID: <1213@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Date: 1 Aug 89 13:32:31 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando
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Perhaps I'm just lucky or something, but....

I really don't understand all the hoopla over reading 360K and 1.2MB diskettes
in a single 1.2MB drive.

I have a 286/20MHz machine with a 1.2MB drive and a 1.44MB 3.5" drive.  I
format, read and write 360K floppies and 1.2MB floppies all the time and read
them on 360K XT's and AT's all the time.  My neighbor has an old Leading Edge
with only a single 360K drive and a 30MB HD, and he and I are constantly
swapping disks.  We've never had problems in this area.  And I read and write
1.2MB disks and put them on other machines on a regular basis.

The machine came this way and I have never been aware of anyone having any
kind of problem until I've seen this string of messages.
Is this really that much of a problem?  Should I open the machine up and post
the drive make and model and information about the FDC and so forth?

-- Marcus
wordproc@ucf-cs.ucf.edu