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

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Jan 22 00:30:02 1999

Don Maslin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Marvin wrote:
>
> > 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!!!

I should have known what you meant <sigh>. I have never had any trouble
formatting the 360K diskettes in a 1.2 MB drive, but have had *many* read
problems when those disks were alternated between 360K and 1.2 MB drives
without being bulk erased first.
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 00:30:02 GMT