HardCard driver disks

From: Matt London <classiccmp_at_knm.yi.org>
Date: Thu Nov 22 05:54:10 2001

Hi,

> > Ok, so what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
> > I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
> > searching through the archives.
>
> The problem is with writing on a 1.2 MB drive onto a disk that has also
> been written with the 360K drive, and then trying to read the resultant
> mess with a 360K drive. I've never run into problems reading any 360K
> diskette with a 1.2 MB drive.

1.2M drives write thinner tracks than 360k drives, 360k drives get
confused if you've overwritten stuff written with a 360k drive (thick
tracks) with stuff from a 1.2M drive (thin track) - you get the idea :&)

-- Matt

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