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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSH disk errors & text conversion...
Message-ID: <1585@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 90 19:32:31 GMT
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consp11@bingsunm.cc.binghamton.edu (Brett Kessler) writes:

|In article <90066.074631UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee
|Sailer) writes:
|> 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.

|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
|misunderstanding
|the above message?

What the problem most likely x%is that the High Density drive has a 
narrower head, and so it writes a narrower track on the disk, even when
writing a 720K diskette.

So when you take the 720K disk written in a HD drive and try to read it in
a normal 720K drive, you have a wider head trying to read the data off of a
narrower track than it is used to, and it may get errors.


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