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From: markg@amd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with floppy disk problems
Message-ID: <4008@amd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 16:33:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: amd.4008
Posted: Tue May 19 16:33:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 21-May-87 01:32:22 EDT
References: <399@tifsie.UUCP> <62NETOPRDC@NCSUVM> <1752@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: markg@amd.UUCP (Mark Gorlinsky)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <1752@ihlpe.ATT.COM> psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) writes:
>In article <62NETOPRDC@NCSUVM>, NETOPRDC@NCSUVM.BITNET writes:
>> (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. 
>

Does anyone ever bother to read reference manuals???  The following is a quote
from the IBM 3.2 DOS Reference Manual pages 1-9, 1-10.

High-Capacity Drives

You can read and write to:

o   Single-sided 160/180KB diskettes**

o   Double-sided 320/360KB diskettes**

o   High-capacity disketts


IMPORTANT:

** If you write on any of these diskette types using a
high-capacity drive, you may not be able to read the
diskettes in a single-sided or double-sided drive.

END-QUOTE.

The reason for this is the 1.2m floppy's head is thinner than that of the 
single/double sided floppy.  

If anyone wants to go into depth, be my guest. 



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