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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: ftpeeing
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Date: 11 Oct 90 09:49:02 GMT
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In article <1cRuq1w163w@bluemoon.UUCP> bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login) writes:
>
>-->>    There's a facility somewhere at Ohio State which does the transfer 
>onto a floppy from one's account in messy dos format, but they probably 
>got 1.2 or 1.44 meg drives too.
>
You should have no trouble reading/writing/formatting 720 K diskettes on
a 1.44 MB drive.  The same is not true of 360 K diskettes and 1.2 MB drives.
The difference between a 720 K diskette and a 1.44 MB diskette is only
the sectors per track.  The differences between a 360 K disk and a 1.2 MB disk
are a bit more drastic.  The most important one is that the tracks on a 1.2 MB
disk are only half the width of those on the 360 K disk.  You can usually
get interchangeability between 360 K drives and 1.2 MB drives, but you can't
depend on it.

il
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