21 Jan
1999
21 Jan
'99
4:30 p.m.
Don Maslin wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Marvin wrote:
I should have known what you meant <sigh>. I have never had any trouble
formatting the 360K diskettes in a 1.2 MB drive, but have had *many* read
problems when those disks were alternated between 360K and 1.2 MB drives
without being bulk erased first.
I have been able to format 360K disks at 1.2 MB,
but there starts to be a
fair number of bad sectors as the formating progresses towards the center of
the disk. I have also found that 360K disks formatted at 1.2 MB tend to
have a shorter data life span. Formatting 720K as 1.44 MB also seems to
result in a shorter data life span but not as bad as the 360Ks formatted at
1.2 MB, probably because the oerstadt rating is closer.
Perhaps, I should have been more specific that I was referring to
formatting 360k disks to the 96tpi 720k disk format. Not 1.2mb! I have
never had any luck with that, nor have I really tried except as an
experiment to see how bad it went. Pretty bad!!!