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From: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 3.5" drives
Message-ID: <8376@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 23:53:08 GMT
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In article <3647@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> webb@uhccux.UUCP (Thomas Webb) writes:
>
>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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>webb@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.edu   
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PURE B.S.!  1.44M drives CAN reliably read/write/format 720K diskettes.
I do it all the time on my system.

		Bob Bailey