Disk problems/questions.

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Feb 11 06:27:01 1998

<The reason for the quotes around "no problem" is that some people have
<wrongly assumed you can format 360K disks in a 1.2 MB drive and just use
<them in a 360K drive. This is only true if the disk being formated has n

That is a big no-no. The 1.2m drives have a write head that is have the
width and if not properly configured the wrong write current for 360k
media(1.2m media is different magnetically). Also that narrower head
produces a much lower read signal on a 360k drive with more errors.

Scandisk works excellent for me here even on my Leading Edge XT. It's
something your doing not scandisk.

Allison
Received on Wed Feb 11 1998 - 06:27:01 GMT