Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpvcfs1!johne From: johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: remember, guys, HD disks are rated for 2M >> 1.44M Message-ID: <670004@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> Date: 11 Feb 89 00:09:09 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA Lines: 18 <<<<< < Just thought I'd point this out; there are a lot of people using the < 720k diskettes in 1.44 mode with apparent success; Thats not something you want to try with data you really care about. While a drive might be able to format and use a 720K disk as a 1.44M disk it will probably be the first to go as the drive ages or the temperature changes. BTW: 1.44M = 1.44 *(1024)*(1000). Talk about mixed units of measure. < Question: Does anybody use 2M disks at 2M density? How? 1.44M is 2M density. The difference is formated vs. unformated capacity. John Eaton !hpvcfs1!johne