Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Question on new floppy dive formattin Message-ID: <0ZBBClq00VE1Mak1ZE@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Oct 89 18:10:57 GMT References: <25675.25331199@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 6 In-Reply-To: <25675.25331199@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> It should be safe to use the HD floppies as 800K.... basically an HD floppy has media that is manufactured to much tighter specs.... an HD should actually be just as reliable or more-so than on 800K floppy. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.eu