Parallel port hard drives?

If reformatting a 360Kb on a 1.2Mb drive that already has data formatted & written with a 360Kb drive the following situation will occur if that floppy is subsequently read with a 360Kb drive. the 48 tpi track will have an 96 track inside it the 48 tpi drivehard will read average data from both the 48 and the 96 bits inside it = ######01010001010000100010000010000010##### <Old 360KB DATA 1/4 48tpi track ######00000000000000000000000000000000##### <new formatted track 1/2 96tpi track ######00000000000000000000000000000000##### <new formatted track 1/2 96tpi track ######01010001010000100010000010000010##### <Old 360KB DATA 1/4 48tpi track = | +-------- Head position cannot distinguish between 0 or 1 Furthermore the adjecent 48 tpi tracks will interfere with the 96data cause the encoded magnets will will start to merge. (Big magnet domains will make inroads into smaller over time) As Tony Duel stated: It may be important to know if the floppies were brandnew or bulkereased (degaussed) or if they were written with a 48tpi head before reformatting. If you bulkerease them before reformatting (reformat preferably several times) you may get away with it since you will not get the interference from old data. and the new format will be stronger. You may also have to write identical data several times but only with the 1.2 kb drive. Any writing of data with a 48tpi drivehead will put you back to square one. I circomvented this situation with separate floppies. One to transfer data and another (formatted on the 360kb drive) to bring data from B to A. For a more permanent solution I would look for an extra 360 Kb drive Sipke de Wal ----- Original Message ----- From: David Vohs &lt;netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Parallel port hard drives? a let