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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Writing 360kb Disks from 1.2 Mb Drive
Summary: No problem
Message-ID: <3524@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 89 09:34:11 GMT
References: <3789@peora.ccur.com> <3787@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
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Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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-In article <3789@peora.ccur.com> joel@peora.UUCP writes:
->I would still like to able to write disks that a 360 kb drive
->can read...............

In article <3787@stiatl.UUCP> todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman) replies:
-
-Format the 360k disk on the 1.2M drive using the /4 switch.  You may 
-then write to that disk on the 1.2M drive, and it can be read on a 360k drive.
-Do not write that disk on the 360k drive (this includes deleting files).
-The 1.2M drive should be able to read a 360k disk formatted on the 360k
-drive with no problems.

	Better yet: if you know for sure that the disk has been written to
on a 360K drive, copy the content of the disk to another disk (say, a
harddisk), erase the disk completely (using a magnet or a bulk-eraser),
format with the /4 switch, and copy the content right back.  Works every
time...
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