Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!att!chinet!mcdchg!ddsw1!ddsw1!point!wek 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 References: <1213@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> Lines: 15 >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).