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From: costello@eplrx7.uucp (Tim Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSH disk errors & text conversion...
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.195727.66@eplrx7.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 90 19:57:27 GMT
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From article <90066.074631UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, by UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer):
> A side note on MSDOS disks on the Amiga.  Most high density (e.g. 1.44MB)
> floppy drives are *not* guarenteed to write reliably to 720K disks that
> will later be read on older, non-high density drives.  This could be one
> cause of problems people have going from the PC back to the Amiga.
> 
> In my experience, the low density drive can read the file written on the
> hd drive 95% of the time, but it can still fail.  When I have a time
> constraint, I make two copies on two different disks.

	To further this confusing issue...my experience with this problem
(going between 1.44M and 720K drives) has been that disks fomatted to 720K
in the 1.44M drive have never failed when read in a different 720K drive.
The reverse (formatting with the 720K drive) has been much more problematic.

	I've seen this problem both with going from PC to PC and PC to Amiga.
I qualify this with saying that I haven't gotten MSH up and running yet.

	Of course, your mileage may vary.

-- 
Tim Costello
Du Pont
Medical Products
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