11 Feb
1998
11 Feb
'98
6:27 a.m.
<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
11 Feb
11 Feb
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
10:30 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:21:53, you said:
I've found that scandisk gets squirrelly if you
have device drivers or
TSRs loaded. Unload all of them and try it again.
No TSR's, no device drivers. (No autoexec.bat, no config.sys)
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Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
3:31 p.m.
Allison J Parent 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.
Yes, the head widths are different, but I have always been under the
impression that using the /f or /f:360 switch with format changes the write
current on the drive to adjust for the different coercitivity (sp?) of the
360K and 1.2 M media. Back when the 1.2 MB drives first came out, there was
quite a bit of discussion about how to use 360K diskettes reliably on both
360K and 1.2M drives The short answer is you can't if both reading and
writing is to be done on both drives on the same 360K diskette.
10:29 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:27:01 -0500, you said:
Scandisk works excellent for me here even on my Leading
Edge XT. It's
something your doing not scandisk.
Maybe it's a difference between the XT and AT BIOS or how the format
command is executed, I wasn't "doing" anything but:
1) format b:
(Responding to prompts as appropriate)
2)scandisk b:
(Error message reported by said scandisk program)
No parameters, no modifiers, nothing more than the above two commands
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Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
12 Feb
12 Feb
11:52 p.m.
I had an IBM 360k that I was using, no compliants. I started having
data problems moving stuff from a true 1.2M to the 360. Later, I put a
360 in the other computer and I still had problems. Finally, I figured
it out, the IBM was either out of alignment, or shot...
Could it just simply be the 360k drive?
-Mike
Barry Peterson wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:27:01 -0500, you said:
Scandisk works excellent for me here even on my
Leading Edge XT. It's
something your doing not scandisk.
Maybe it's a difference between the XT and AT BIOS or how the format
command is executed, I wasn't "doing" anything but:
1) format b:
(Responding to prompts as appropriate)
2)scandisk b:
(Error message reported by said scandisk program)
No parameters, no modifiers, nothing more than the above two commands
_______________
Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
13 Feb
13 Feb
2:02 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:52:34 -0700, you said:
I had an IBM 360k that I was using, no compliants. I
started having
data problems moving stuff from a true 1.2M to the 360. Later, I put a
360 in the other computer and I still had problems. Finally, I figured
it out, the IBM was either out of alignment, or shot...
Could it just simply be the 360k drive?
6 of 'em? Same symptoms exactly?
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Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
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