Disks (was: Re: Generations and Hard/Soft sectoring

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Fri Apr 18 09:50:44 1997

>
> While we are on the subject of disks, I got a bag of 5 1/4" disks from a
> friend, and they are mostly DSHD. I have been able to format most of them,
> but there are a select few that my Atari SSSD drive will not format. Do you
> think that I could format them with a different machine, or pass them under
> a magnet and get them to where my atari could format them? I hate to throw
> them away, and I'm not that technical when it comes to magnetic properties
> and such.


Generally, I've found that the High Density disks are all but unusable in
these older computers/disk drives. . .found that out the hard way when I
bought a C128 with a 1751 disk drive, and tried to format some HD disks .
..for a while I thought the disk drive was broken!
Received on Fri Apr 18 1997 - 09:50:44 BST