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From: ges@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with floppy disk problems
Message-ID: <3587@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 21:50:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.3587
Posted: Fri May 15 21:50:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 17:00:59 EDT
References: 399@tifsie.UUCP <62NETOPRDC@NCSUVM>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: sometimes 1.2M drives will write 360k disks

In article <62NETOPRDC@NCSUVM>, NETOPRDC@NCSUVM.BITNET writes:
> To the person trying to read a 360k floppy in a 1.2 meg floppy drive,
> you should be able to read the disk but you will wipe it
> (ah..ha-ha-ha-ha.....wipeout!) when yo try to write to it.  The drives
> are jst configured differently
>      

I have seen 360k floppies written on in 1.2M drives with no ill effects.
The floppies were formatted on a 360k drive. The instance I witnessed
was a floppy formatted on an IBM XT and written by a IBM AT. The
disk was readable by the XT ( and AT) after the write. I beleive that the
floppy was a Maxell DS/DD.