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Subject: Re: Formatting 720K disks to 1.44 Megs HELP!!
Keywords: disk, media quality
Message-ID: <5557@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:23:28 GMT
References: <1989Nov27.212809.7241@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5560@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: hendrick@frith.UUCP (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <5560@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> dillon@uhccux.UUCP (Ian Dillon) writes:
>In a related topic, are there any programs out there which will allow one
>to read a 720K disk which has been formatted to 1.44 Megs. using a non-
>PS2/Toshiba computer?

If a soft-sectored disk has been formatted to 1.44M, then it is a 1.44M
disk.  It can only be used in the future in a 1.44M drive.  I strongly
discourage this for 720k media, for the reasons in my last post.

In the rare case that original ideas   Kenneth J. Hendrickson    N8DGN
are found here, I am responsible.      Owen W328, E. Lansing, MI 48825
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