Reiability of wrong media (was: is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Jan 21 19:19:22 1999

Don Maslin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > I have had very little success in formatting 48tpi disks in 96tpi drives.
> > As I mentioned earlier, this includes name-brands like 3M..
>
> Interesting! I have never had a problem using even generic 48tpi disks
> at 96tpi.

I have been able to format 360K disks at 1.2 MB, but there starts to be a
fair number of bad sectors as the formating progresses towards the center of
the disk. I have also found that 360K disks formatted at 1.2 MB tend to
have a shorter data life span. Formatting 720K as 1.44 MB also seems to
result in a shorter data life span but not as bad as the 360Ks formatted at
1.2 MB, probably because the oerstadt rating is closer.
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 19:19:22 GMT

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