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- From: dg@pallio.UUCP (David Goodenough)
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- Subject: Re: 720K 5-1/4" diskettes
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 22:54:25 GMT
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- killer@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francis J Park) asks:
- > Can't you just use standard 1.2MB floppies on a 720k drive?
- > It seems since the media is the same, it should work.
-
- Not quite. There *IS* a difference in media between IBM 1.2 meg
- disks and IBM 360K disks / Quad density 720K disks. If you don't
- believe me, try taking a 360K disk, and formatting it to 1.2 megs.
- OTOH, as has been noted you can format 360K disks to 720K (or even
- 800K) in an IBM 1.2 meg drive: I have a couple of utilities to do
- this, and use the 800K format for all my archival backups. It
- provides by far and away the best cost per megabyte: 25 cents for
- 800K works out to about 32 cents per megabyte.
- dg
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