17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
11:11 a.m.
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Doc wrote:
I never had any problems with the 360K written on a 1.2mb drive but I always
bulk erased it first. On the other hand I usually had a (and still have) a
360K drive laying around.
Randy
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