Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!umd5!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsvax!mvolo 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 Lines: 22 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 Dept. of Psychiatry mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP Durham Vet Admin Medical Center Durham, N.C. 27712