[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Re^2: 1.2meg/360k compatibility question

leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (07/30/89)

[description of tests involving overwriting a test file with *itself*]
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Try overwriting with a *different* preferably one with the bits swapped.

I *have* seen the compatability problem. We had to swap the A and B drives
in a Compaq so that the (novice) users would write files on a 1.2M drive
and ship them off to a department that only had PCs. This was after 
errors on the order of 2 a week (say 1 per 50 or 60 disks).
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