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From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
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Subject: Re: Formatting 1.2 Meg disks to 360K question
Keywords: floppy formatting
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Date: 11 Jan 90 15:06:30 GMT
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In article <1700@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michielsen) writes:
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>If you hold a real 1.2 MB disk up to the light and look at it at about a 30
>or 45 degree angle, you should be able to see a ring. In the read/write window
>at the outside edge of the floppy disk media. It's about .1 inch wide or so.
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Have you checked several brands of disks? The brand of 1.2M disks we use have 
no trace of that "ring". And besides, how would the older technology of
360K know to look for a ring that was invented later??
				-ted-
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