Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Dr. What
Date : Wed May 14 2025 07:29 am

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to Dr. What <=-

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

My understanding (and I'm really reaching back in the memory here) was that
many 360K drives were not in really good alignment.  Not a real big deal when
reading other 360K disks, but to read a disk written to by a 1.2M drive meant
that the 360K drive had to be in proper alignment or there would be issues.

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

I don't think it could sense, but that might be my faulty memory.

But I do remember the switch on the FORMAT command.


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