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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (      David Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Writing 360K diskettes on 1.2 Mb dri
Message-ID: <2690002@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 19:38:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  1 19:38:22 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Dec-86 05:11:21 EST
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By way of comment from my experience:  I have found with the great variety and
numbers of computers I use around here that:
    a 360K disc formatted in a 1.2M drive (with the /4 option to format as
       a 360K disc, of course) canNOT be read in about 1/3 of the 360K 
       drives when a 1.2M drive also writes the data to the disc, but
    a 360K disc formatted in a 360K drive and written to by a 1.2M drive
       can NEARLY always be read in a 360K drive.

Most of our new  machines  have ONLY 1.2M drives for  floppies,  but we have a
couple of machines with a 360K drive installed as a second floppy drive simply
for the above  purpose,  to format a 360K disc so that it will more  likely be
readable  by an older 360K drive (even if it might have data  written on it by
the 1.2M drives).


-David M. Reed        hplsla!davidr