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From: timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT formatting problem
Message-ID: <1981@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 13:03:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.1981
Posted: Fri Jul 24 13:03:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 01:12:40 EDT
References: <2574@husc6.UUCP> <100299@cpsc53.UUCP> <3587@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <3587@ecsvax.UUCP> phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
>Whoa!  A 360K drive cannot read a 1.2M disk, nor can it write in that format.
>However, the 96TPI disks can be formatted as 360K disks on a low or high
>density drive.  Their greater cost, however, makes that uneconomical.
>                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)

I have tried to format a 600ost disk (96tpi, 1.2M) in a 360k drive, I have
never actually been successful.

The problem of formatting 1.2M diskettes in 360k drives is due to the 600ost
medium. It takes too much energy to saturate the magnetic particles, there-
fore it is almost impossible to get a bit written to a 1.2M floppy in a 360k
disk drive.

Try it sometime (:-)


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