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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can 360k be written on 1.2M drive? (NO!)
Message-ID: <1128@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 18:36:48 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1128
Posted: Thu Feb 26 18:36:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 07:16:52 EST
References: <409@thumper.UUCP> <7700005@osiris>
Reply-To: rick@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UW-Madison Academic Computer Center
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Summary: unless you like to live dangerously

In article <7700005@osiris> casper@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>    When making disks to be distributed to people with various types 
>of machines I make sure that the disks have never been written to in any way 
>by a 1.2M drive. This is because I have had complaints from people that the 
>disks would work fine in an IBM they had, but then cause read errors on another 
>look-alike.  I have also heard stories of IBM/PC's that refuse to read such 
>disks.
Absolutely true.  This happened to a programmer I know.  He got the final
version of his program all set for his presentation, copied the disks,
ran it once on an AT to make sure that the copies worked, and went off
to the demo.  

"General Error Reading Disk:  Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

  and its all because he didn't eat his vegetables...I mean, because he didn't
know about the eccentricities of the 1.2 Mb drives in writing.  

PS:  He went back home, tried them in the same AT, and they still workedd
He was really confused till he told someone who had experience in a mixed
machine environment who knew what must have happened.  
-- 
"I'll do it -- I've got the GUTS.  I'm the PRESIDENT."
"Maybe we should take that box away from him."  "Why bother?"
Rick Keir -- one floor up from the Oyster Tank -- UWisc - Madison
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