Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!calvin!kevin 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 References: <8362@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: kevin@calvin.ee.cornell.edu.UUCP (Kevin Tubbs) Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group Lines: 18 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 kevin@calvin.ee.cornell.edu {uunet,rochester}!cornell!calvin!kevin