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From: psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with floppy disk problems
Message-ID: <1752@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 11:03:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpe.1752
Posted: Tue May 19 11:03:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:27:42 EDT
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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


Actually, this is far from a guaranteed wipeout.  While you are taking
a slight chance in writing a 360K disk in a 1.2 meg drive (i.e. don't
use this to store critical data), I have never had any problem in doing
so. 

The other direction is a problem.  You can't read or write a 1.2 Meg disk
in a 360K drive.
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