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- From: donm@crash.cts.com (Don Maslin)
- Subject: Re: 720K 5-1/4" diskettes
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 03 Sep 92 12:25:11 PDT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.122511.14458@crash>
- References: <1992Sep3.132411.20887@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- Francis J Park (killer@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
- : Can't you just use standard 1.2MB floppies on a 720k drive?
- : It seems since the media is the same, it should work.
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- Sorry, the media are distinctly NOT the same! It is unlikely that the
- 720 drive could even successfully format the disk - much less write data
- to it. The 1.2 floppy requires a much higher magnetic force to write
- to it.
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