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From: mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to write 360K disks in a 1.2MB drive
Summary: copyiipc doesn't work with 1.2 m floppy drives
Message-ID: <5365@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 88 21:47:12 GMT
References: <462@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> <4330094@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <4330094@hpindda.HP.COM>, mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz) writes:
> > If you buy a copy of the COPYiiPC program, it includes a utility called
> > BULKERAS.  This is a program that will completely blank out a disk.  It
> > works with 1.2M drives as well...it's good insurance before you format your
> > 360K disks.
>   BTW, since you mentioned COPYiiPC:  can it "copy" a 1.2M disk if all you 
>   have is one floppy drive and a hard drive -- that is, without asking you
>   to constantly switch floppies?  The ideal implementation would build a disk


When we have tried to copy files from a 360K drive to a 1.2 meg drive
it didn't work, and we got a message something like "adjusting drive
speed".  I have not tried the bulkerase feature.

In the back of PC Mag there used to be a utility called, I believe,
CPYAT2PC, which was supposed to let 1.2 M drives write to diskettes
formatted in 360k drives, but I've never seen it used.


Michael R. Volow                   919 286 0411
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