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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Writing 360kb Disks from 1.2 Mb Drive
Message-ID: <1339@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 16:04:48 GMT
References: <3789@peora.ccur.com>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
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In article <3789@peora.ccur.com> joel@peora.UUCP writes:
>I just got a high-density floppy controller for my XT clone at
>home and I was thinking about replacing the 360 kb drive with
>a 1.2 Mb one. The other floppy bay already has a 720 kb drive.
>
>I would still like to able to write disks that a 360 kb drive
>can read, since I need to transfer data to machines sometimes
>that only have 360kb drives. I know that this process is not
>reliable with the normal write on a 1.2 mb drive.
>

If possible, you might want to borrow a couple of 1.2 Meg drives from
different manufacturers and try them on your machine.  I have heard that
the problem with 1.2 Meg drives is not universal.  My Leading Edge D2 has
a Panasonic 1.2 Meg drive, and a controller on the motherboard, and I have
been unable to MAKE 360K disks fail on other machines, and I've tried pretty
hard.

Tom



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