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

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Apr 18 20:01:24 1997

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

> 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!

  I agree here. I've had exactly the same experience with 3.5" disks and
went through the same hell trying to determine exactly what was wrong.

  But it still defies sense. Surely, if the disk has a higher density, it
should be able to be formatted on a lower density drive. What's so
different?

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