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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Amusing Anectode (The tale of the 2 Meg disk)
Message-ID: <1649@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 01:08:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1649
Posted: Sat Jul 11 01:08:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:45:47 EDT
References: <398@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <398@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) writes:
>Anyway, now I have a 2.0 Meg capacity floppy disk. 8-)

Well, if 2.0M 3.5" floppys achieve their high density in the same way
HD 5.25" floppys do, you might not want to use it.  HD disk drives use
a higher write current, because the floppy media is less sensitive, which
for some reason permits higher density.  Normal disk drives will not
put out a high enough write current to write the media reliably.  I
remember having all kinds of problems trying to format HD disks on
non-HD drives until this was explained to me, and I gave up trying.


Keith Doyle
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