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From: tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5" 1.44/720K drive question
Keywords: 3.5" drive, 1.44M, 720K
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Date: 23 Mar 89 07:36:09 GMT
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In article <22063@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> dkim@cs.ucla.edu (Dong Hun Kim) writes:
>How to install the switch :
 [...]

If I trick my drive into writing 1.44M on a 720K disk, and then I give
it to somebody who has not defeated the sensor in his drive, can he
read the disk?  (In other words, does DOS set the density for reading
by looking at the hole, or just the density when formatting?)

Tim