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From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with floppy disk problems
Message-ID: <93@bernina.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 08:54:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: bernina.93
Posted: Fri May 22 08:54:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 16:30:26 EDT
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Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland
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In article <4008@amd.UUCP> markg@amd.UUCP (Mark Gorlinsky) writes:
>** If you write on any of these diskette types [180KB or 360KB, ed.] using a
>high-capacity drive, you may not be able to read the
>diskettes in a single-sided or double-sided drive.

Actually, I never had a problem reading data on disks written by a high
density drive. I was able to read the data on my own drive, three other
high density drives and several low density drives. It didn't matter on
which drive the data was written and on which it was read.
But, the problem comes in if you're going to FORMAT a floppy with 360KB
on a high density disk. None of the other drives mentioned above was able
to read such floppies. And it didn't matter on which high density drive
they were formatted. Sometimes I even had troubles reading the data with
the same drive which did the formatting.

		...urs


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