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

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 00:13:50 1999

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Marvin wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps, I should have been more specific that I was referring to
formatting 360k disks to the 96tpi 720k disk format. Not 1.2mb! I have
never had any luck with that, nor have I really tried except as an
experiment to see how bad it went. Pretty bad!!!

                                                 - don
 
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