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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSH disk errors & text conversion...
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Date: 8 Mar 90 19:35:53 GMT
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In article <3104@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp11@bingsunm.cc.binghamton.edu
(Brett Kessler) says:


>Am I understanding this correctly?  Does this mean that a regular density disk
>(ie: DS/DD) written on a high density drive will get read/write errors more
>frequently than those written on a regular density drive?  Or am I


Nearly right.  It will get more r/w errors when used in a regular drive.
It should work fine in a high density drive.  The reason I've been told is
that the high density drives lay down a narrower, more precisely positioned
pattern of magnetic signals, and the lower density drives are sometimes
not sensitive enough or aligned accurately enough to pick them up.

Look in an official IBM Msdos manual, version 3.30, to see the official
warning.  See the FORMAT command.

                                 lee