elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) (04/30/91)
One of my acquaintances recently read in some magazine the following factoid: FDHD drives, so the article stated, get "used to" writing on either 800K or 1.4M diskettes if they are used prevalently with one kine or another, and begin to have difficulty dealing with the magnetic characteristics of the other variety. This seems like so much balderdash to me... Would anyone care to confirm or deny this rumor, and help calm my friend down? -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu
basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) (04/30/91)
elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) writes: >One of my acquaintances recently read in some magazine the following >factoid: FDHD drives, so the article stated, get "used to" writing on >either 800K or 1.4M diskettes if they are used prevalently with one >kine or another, and begin to have difficulty dealing with the >magnetic characteristics of the other variety. >This seems like so much balderdash to me... Would anyone care to >confirm or deny this rumor, and help calm my friend down? >-- >Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" >elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu All I know is that I've seen many 1.44 Meg drives, both mac and PC, that simply refuse to read or write a 720 disk even though they "should" be able to. David Basiji