Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!dali!ogicse!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!sagpd1!monty
From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading IBM 3 1/2 inch disks
Message-ID: <727@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 15:20:41 GMT
References: <1135@wsu-cs> <1675@corpane.UUCP> <14917@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Distribution: na
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
Lines: 17

In article <14917@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
>In article <1675@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>>I think you might be confused. There are no 360K 3 1/2 inch disks.
>     Funny, I used one today. Formatted one, even.
>     The 3.5 inch drives will be more than happy to format to 360K, even
>double sided. Also, the old IBM single sided 3.5 inch drives were 360K.

On a side note, it is simple to install a 3 1/2 drive in and XT, the only 
problem you have is that most XT floppy controllers do not know how to
format a 720K drive so they format it to 360K. Hence I have found that I can
read and write 720K floppies on an XT, but must first format them on an AT
so that they are 720K. (I use an XT at work to download amiga source/binaries
from this net and then use crossdos to put them on my A1000). For all you 
that are thinking - use the right flags and you can format them to 720K - 
save your breath, the controller/bios I have does not understand the flags.

Monty Saine