DD vs QD (Was: Re: FAQ updates/changes)

From: hellige <jeffh_at_eleventh.com>
Date: Sat May 17 08:16:14 1997

>On Wed, 21 May 1997, Scott Walde wrote:

> I've actually had very little problem using _good_quality_ 360k (DSDD)
> disks in my Tandy 2000, which has a 720k drive (DSQD). I believe the
> magnetic material was the same from the DD to QD, just packed
> tighter/finer(?). Am I wrong?

   I do know that some later T2k's preferred the usage of HD diskettes vice DD
ones. This could possibly be a change in the drive mech that Mitsubishi used
for the basis of the M4853-1. Mine used to use DD disks just fine, which is
what I used since the QD ones were difficult to find and were expensive.
Other people I talked to had no luck with the reliability of DD diskettes
though and found that the HD ones would work just fine.

   Jeff jeffh_at_eleventh.com

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