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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 18:32:22 GMT
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- david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:
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- >I guess this boils down to the fact that if the diskette drive is a
- >good quality drive, it can handle this but if it is not, then this
- >practice is definitely one to be avoided.
- *----
- I came to the opposite conclusion. Since the coercivity of the oxide
- on the disks is different, only a very poor drive would handle HD-formatted
- DD disks without reporting problems. Maybe your drive was broken and
- used the same signal level on all disks regardless of density.
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- Mike Berger
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