21 Nov
2001
21 Nov
'01
9:54 p.m.
Hi,
1.2M drives write thinner tracks than 360k drives, 360k drives get
confused if you've overwritten stuff written with a 360k drive (thick
tracks) with stuff from a 1.2M drive (thin track) - you get the idea :&)
-- Matt
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Ok, so
what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
The problem is with writing on a 1.2 MB drive onto a disk that has also
been written with the 360K drive, and then trying to read the resultant
mess with a 360K drive. I've never run into problems reading any 360K
diskette with a 1.2 MB drive.