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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Formatting and writing 360K diskettes with 1.2M drive.
Message-ID: <6239@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 Aug 88 20:08:00 GMT
References: <11069@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <2977@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <2977@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
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>The problem with 360K on 1.2M drives is hardware not software.  The track
>is 50% smaller.  The head only writes 1/2 the amount of data flux changes.

I've seen an ad for a software product that claims to write 360K disks
in a 1.2 M drive.  I don't remember the details but it seems like the
sensible thing to do would be to write 2 identical half-width tracks
instead of skipping every other track.

Les Mikesell