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From: jars@coast.ucsd.edu (Juan A. Rodriguez-Sero)
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Subject: Re: 360K in 1.2M drives
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Date: 6 Mar 91 22:23:12 GMT
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In article <4684@cocoa46.UUCP> reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ) writes:
>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,

I have formatted and written 360K discs in my old ('86 vintage) AT
clone, and read them successfully in my son's oldish ('88 vintage)
XT clone.

If they are new blanks, no special treatment is necessary; if they
have something written on them already, I pass them through a nice
deletion utility, BULKERAS (as, if I don't, they will be unreadable).






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