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From: kevin@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Kevin Tubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How to write 360K disks in a 1.2MB drive
Message-ID: <462@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 88 13:51:33 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@calvin.ee.cornell.edu.UUCP (Kevin Tubbs)
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group
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In article <8362@bellcore.bellcore.com> jef@djinn.UUCP (Jonathan E. Flamm) writes:
>...Is there
>software available that will RELIABLY write 360K diskettes on 1.2MB drives
>so they can be reliable read on 360K drives.

I have had excellent success by "erasing" (with a magnet or bulk eraser)
the diskette prior to formatting (in 360K format) in the 1.2MB drive.  The
major problem seems to be when a diskette has already been formatted in
360K format in a 360K drive, and then formatted as a 360K in a 1.2MB drive.
This leaves behind remnants of the original 360K tracks, which the 1.2MB
drive doesn't wipe out.

You could also use a blank-out-of-the-box diskette, if you have no way
to erase a used one.

-- 
Kevin Tubbs, 5152 Upson, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 14853  (607) 255-8703
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