18 Apr
1997
18 Apr
'97
5:23 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:01:24 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:
Check the technical specs of floppies; the magnetic characteristics of
5.25" DD versus HD disks are different. They look similar but are very
different.
3.5" disks seem to differ only in that extra hole, the specs are
almost identical.
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Barry Peterson bm_pete(a)ix.netcom.com
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe now and to Tegan at 10:23 a.m. on April 13th!!!
(7lbs. 2oz., 19", lots of dark hair, and HEALTHY!)
Generally, I've found that the High Density
disks are all but unusable in
these older computers/disk drives. . .found that out the hard way when I
bought a C128 with a 1751 disk drive, and tried to format some HD disks .
..for a while I thought the disk drive was broken!
I agree here. I've had exactly the same experience with 3.5" disks and
went through the same hell trying to determine exactly what was wrong.
But it still defies sense. Surely, if the disk has a higher density, it
should be able to be formatted on a lower density drive. What's so
different?