Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : StormTrooper
From : slacker
Date : Sat May 03 2025 07:12 am

> In the your mileage may var
> category, it is generally NOT
> reliable.  But if you have to do
> it, and expect the DD drive to read
> it happily, then the best course
> was to format it on the DD drive
> and then write to it with the HD
> drive ONCE only...  It appears very
> device dependent though.

Yep, same here. I used to use my 486 with a 1.2MB drive to write floppies for my XT which has a 360Kb drive. It would generally work but the hit or miss errors after a while would drive me nuts.

I ended up just putting a 360kb drive in my 486 for this to avoid the HD to DD and visa versa reading/writing errors. 

I did that about 20 years ago and haven't had issues since. (I actually used both of those computers tonight... though not the floppy drives.)



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