21 Jan
1999
21 Jan
'99
4:13 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Marvin wrote:
Don Maslin wrote:
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!!!
- don
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
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. I have had very little success in formatting
48tpi disks in 96tpi drives.
As I mentioned earlier, this includes name-brands like 3M..
Interesting! I have never had a problem using even generic 48tpi disks
at 96tpi.