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From: reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 360K in 1.2M drives
Keywords: Drive
Message-ID: <4684@cocoa46.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 18:55:56 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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The newer 360K drives can read 360K disks formatted in the 1.2M drives.
The problem comes when using the older 360K drives.  The new drives have a
better Signal / Noise (Sorry guys, I'm RF) Ratio, or to put it more simply,
they have lower BIT Error Rates.

When copying from 360K to 1.2M, 1.2 to 360, 1.44 to 360, 1.44 to 720, etc. use
the DOS XCOPY command.  This allows copying one format to another.

	Chuck Reichert  KD9JQ