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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.2MB/360K disks and drives
Message-ID: <[1397.1]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 05:00:08 GMT
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>I have a 286/20MHz machine with a 1.2MB drive and a 1.44MB 3.5" drive.  I
>format, read and write 360K floppies and 1.2MB floppies all the time and read
>them on 360K XT's and AT's all the time.  My neighbor has an old Leading Edge
>with only a single 360K drive and a 30MB HD, and he and I are constantly
>swapping disks.  We've never had problems in this area.  And I read and write

This has been my experience as well.  I have a couple of hundred users
sharing about 70 pcs who use 360k floppies to carry their work files from
machine to machine.  The only drives I can ever recall having a problem with
the disks written by 1.2 drives were full height drives on the original IBM
PC's.  I should mention that we buy pre-formatted diskettes from ALF.

I've even used Media Master on a 1.2 meg drive to read and write single
sided double density Osborne disks with few problems (My Osborne Exec used
the newer half-height drives also).