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- Subject: Re: 720K 5-1/4" diskettes
- Message-ID: <Zw2LqB4w164w@naos.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill)
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 17:20:34 Y
- References: <1992Sep3.132411.20887@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Naos - Inside the Z80
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- killer@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francis J Park) writes:
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- > Can't you just use standard 1.2MB floppies on a 720k drive?
- > It seems since the media is the same, it should work.
- >
- If it were, you could. But it isn't.
-
- 1.2MB floppies are High Density. 720K floppies are Quad Density. 360K
- floppies are Double Density. Now it turns out that the media currently
- used in 360K floppies copes with 720K format (more tracks, no higher bit
- density in the track) better than 1.2M floppies (which expect a higher
- bit density in the track).
-
- I've had better results with 360K floppies than I've had with 1.2MB
- ones, and they're cheaper too :-)
-
- > Francis Park, Johns Hopkins (History) '94 Internet: killer@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.ed
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- Ewen McNeill, ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (or ewen@actrix.gen.nz)
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