Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : DR. WHAT
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue May 13 2025 10:55:00

> If you write to a 360K disk in a 1.2M drive, it will probably still be read
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> another 1.2M drive, but probably not another 360K drive.

When I first had a 386 with a 1.2M 5.25 drive, so long as the 360K disk
was formatted properly, my XT with the 360K drive could read it just fine after
the 386 wrote to it.

IIRC, there was a switch I would include on the FORMAT command if formating
the 360 disk on the 386.  It might have very well sensed it on its own, but
I didn't want to leave it to chance.


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