30 Sep
1999
30 Sep
'99
11:43 a.m.
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Dwight Elvey wrote:
This is the same thing I was talking about, using a
magnet
to erase with. The only problem you may have is if you then
write a file with a 360K disk drive, you can never write to
it again with the 1.2M drive. If you do, you'll not be able
to read it again with the 360K drive. As was mentioned before,
the 1.2M drive writes a narrower track. I do have a 360K drive
that I keep around just to make 360K copies but the
1.2M trick will work if nothing else is available.
That's the right way to do it, ANY time that you have two different head
widths. (360K wide head v either 1.2M or 720K 5.25" narrow head)
A virgin disk would do fine, but these days it might be hard to find a
diskette that isn't either used or pre-formatted.
But if your data matters, avoid ever using a diskette with the wrong
coercivity.