17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
11:19 a.m.
Hi Eric
I think he means that as long as he stays on that drive,
he has no issues. The write problem is obvious to anyone
that thinks about it a little ( I hope ).
1. A truely blank disk ( bulk erased ) can be formatted
and written on by a 1.2M drive and will work in most
cases on a 360K drive. This may written on by a 360K
drive as well and still work on a 360K.
2. Once a disk has been written on first by a 360K drive
and then a 1.2M, it can only be read on a 1.2M drive!
That's life.
Dwight
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Doc wrote:
I have a 5.25/3.5" combo drive that
handles all four of those formats
(and 3.5" 360K) just fine. The gorgeous part is that it occupies a
single 5.25" bay.
Won't write 360K 5.25" disks reliably. 1.2M drives have a narrower head
gap than 360K drives, because they use 96 TPI rather than 48 TPI.
Eric