PC 160K and 320K are NOT SINGLE DENSITY

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Dec 26 11:23:05 2003

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Nico de Jong wrote:
> > "Note that most PC floppy controllers have broken single density modes.
> Well, that's old hat to me. Around 1988 or so, I suddenly got problems
> reading "elderly" 5.25" discs on new PC's. The reason was, that the 160K and
> 320K capacities were "designed out" of the floppy controllers normally used
> in PC's

HOW can you "designed out" 160K and 320K?
Those are PHYSICALLY the same as the PC 360K format that is
still actively supported.

Any system that can read PC 360K, but not PC 160K and 320K
has BROKEN SOFTWARE, NOT a hardware issue.
Received on Fri Dec 26 2003 - 11:23:05 GMT