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From: phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT formatting problem
Message-ID: <3597@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 09:13:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3597
Posted: Tue Jul 28 09:13:23 1987
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References: <2574@husc6.UUCP> <100299@cpsc53.UUCP> <3587@ecsvax.UUCP> <1981@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller)
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article <1981@tekigm2.TEK.COM> timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson) writes:
>. . . 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 (:-)

Well, I just formatted a DS, HD, 96TPI 3M diskette in a Zenith 159 360K
drive, copied some files to it, and ran a chkdsk.  It worked, more or less,
but chkdsk reported 10240 bytes in bad sectors.  I would conclude from this
that the 96TPI diskettes can be used in 360K format but that such use is
not totally reliable.

-- 
                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)
                        Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill
                        Chapel Hill, NC 27514       (919) 966-4343