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- From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
- Subject: Re: Using HD disks as DD disks
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:56:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.205610.902@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: disks, disk drive
- References: <jeric.67@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
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- In article <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
- >>In article <jeric.67@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> jeric@berkp.uadv.uci.edu (Jeric Woo) writes:
- >>>
- >
- >Yes there are physical differences in the media. The differences are more
- >apparent on 5.25" diskettes then on 3.5".
- >
- >>The LD drive heads are larger then the HD heads. As a result the LD heads
- >>are reading more then one track at a time on the HD disk. Track 0 isn't
- >>bad, it's just smaller then the LD drive is capible of reading it.
- >
- >I don't believe that is correct. If you look at a floppy disk they aren't
- >composed of tracks of magnetic media. The media is a continuous (sp?)
- >coating on the disk.
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- I wasn't refering to the actual media coating on the disk. I was refering to
- the track width of the formatted tracks on the disk. There are areas on a
- floppy that although are coated with the magnetic material, are not written
- with data.
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