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From: webb@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Thomas Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 3.5" drives
Summary: High density desk-top v low density portable
Message-ID: <3647@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 89 22:30:12 GMT
Reply-To: webb@uhccux.UUCP (Thomas Webb)
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Hello all,

Do 1.4 megabyte 3.5" drives really have problems reading and writeing
to 720k dsikettes?  My office is buying a new computer and the
salesman tells us that even with the proper driver most high-density
3.5 inch drives will not reliably read/write/format etc. disks from
the low density dirve in a NEC Multispeed portable.  I don't
understand why this should be, and the salesman has not given me any
particular reasons.  Moreover, disks from the laptop do work in all of
the high-density drives that we have tried, except for the first dirve
provided by the vendor.  So, my feeling is that the salesman just
hasn't done his homework and doesn't know how to set the drives up
properly, but I am not a harware guru and I don't want to say anthing
without some facts.  Any facts?

Thanks for your help,

tom

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