Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ecsvax!phco 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 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 05:47:50 EDT 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 Lines: 18 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