Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!parcvax!burton From: burton@parcvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Writing 360K diskettes on 1.2 Mb dri Message-ID: <132@parcvax.Xerox.COM> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 03:08:50 EST Article-I.D.: parcvax.132 Posted: Thu Dec 11 03:08:50 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 09:51:05 EST References: <184138@<1986Oct26^> <2690002@hplsla.HP.COM> <2441@ecsvax.UUCP> <313@bms-at.UUCP> Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) Organization: Xerox PARC Lines: 10 The reason that theory apparently is contradicted by the "facts" is that the design of a floppy disk drive includes lots of slop for the distortions in the media caused by temperature and humidity. If you are doing interchange with other systems in the same area as the original system, you eliminate most of the slop causes. Phil Burton Xerox Corp.