On 04/23/2013 10:22 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
Is this reliable in the long-term though? If you then read/write a 360K
disk in a true 360K drive that was written to in a 1.2MB drive, won't
you have odd issues with the track widths? What I seem to remember from
years ago was a 1.2MB drive could not reliably overwrite data on a 360K
disk because the tracks written by a 1.2MB drive were narrower, so when
you would then work with that disk in a 360K drive, the 360K drive would
pick up data from the original wider 360K drive track and the narrower
1.2MB drive track. Maybe this would work ok to a limited degree with a
360K floppy that had been bulk-erased prior to writing in a 1.2MB drive,
which was then never written to again in a 1.2MB drive after being
written to in a 360K drive?
Yes, it's reliable. I've been doing it for years and have my VHS bulk
eraser to prove it.
All the narrower track affects (on properly aligned drives) is the S/N
ratio. But in any case, it's no worse than any other 96 tpi drive.
Note that 100 tpi drives are almost as old as 48 tpi ones.
--Chuck