Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: BBC disc drives.. Keywords: 8-bit Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 10:03:45 GMT References: <1991Mar12.024637.12084@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <%`J&`M-@warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 13 I thought 1.2Mb drives had a different type of magnetic head - something to do with needing a different amount of magnatisation for the different media (at least thats the story I heard why the 1.2Mb discs aren't SUPPOSED to work on other drives) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -