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From: aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: high capacity floppies
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Date: 9 Mar 89 15:20:44 GMT
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In article <15426@cup.portal.com> Star-Raider@cup.portal.com (Jack Wahoo Pettrey) writes:

>I use the 800k format routine all the time with no problems on my
>Northgate AT-Clone.

I had no problem formatting some floppies to 800k, but I went back to see
how well they held the data I put on them... One gave read errors after a
day of sitting, another after less than a week.  Both floppies I tried were
perfect initially (at 800k) -- the read/write problems developed only after
time.

On a generic I tried to format it would format and accept data but lose it
within an hour.  Those that held the data longer were higher quality floppies.

I dunno...  I'm not trusting any data to 800k floppies.  (Unless they were
1.2Mb high density floppies... but that's a waste.)

-- 

Andrew Burt 				   			ncar!isis!aburt

	      "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."