#Lowcost 1.76 Meg Disks
09-Jul-94 23:54:01
Sb: #155834-#Lowcost 1.76 Meg Disks
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Hilary Szymanowski 70035,510
Hilary,
That's being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
There IS a difference in the media between 720K floppies and 1.44Meg
floppies. While yes, in many cases…they will format, you WILL have problems
with them retaining data in the long run.
I've got a portable that has an external floppy that doesn't care
whether the floppy has the 2nd hole or not…if you tell it to format at
1.44Meg…it will (or at least attempt to). I've formatted several DSDD
floppies on it…they all formatted fine at 1.44 Meg. I copied data to them
just fine and read them just fine. Several days later…I attempted to read
the disks…several tracks were no longer readable. I tested the disks with
PCTools DiskFix program…those tracks were bad, but after reformatting, they
were ok again….for a few days.
With very few exceptions…this is true of all the disks I've tried.
Don