11 Feb
1998
11 Feb
'98
8:21 a.m.
At 07:27 AM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
<The reason for the quotes around "no
problem" is that some people have
<wrongly assumed you can format 360K disks in a 1.2 MB drive and just use
<them in a 360K drive. This is only true if the disk being formated has n
That is a big no-no. The 1.2m drives have a write head that is have the
width and if not properly configured the wrong write current for 360k
media(1.2m media is different magnetically). Also that narrower head
produces a much lower read signal on a 360k drive with more errors.
Scandisk works excellent for me here even on my Leading Edge XT. It's
something your doing not scandisk.
Allison
I've found that scandisk gets squirrelly if you have device drivers or
TSRs loaded. Unload all of them and try it again.
Joe