mcmillan@harpsichord.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) (04/12/91)
My wife formats DD disks at 1.44 all the time at work on her PS/2. We just got a new machine at home with a 3.5" drive. This drive will not read a DD disk formatted at 1.44. Is this normal? A 5.25" drive doesn't need a sense hole to tell a 360 from a 1.2. Also, my drive will not format an HD to 720K. Now I can understand that manufacturers want to "protect" us from formatting a DD to 1.44M, but why shouldn't I be allowed to format an HD to 720K? On a slight tangent, how was it that we refer to the capacity of an HD disk as 1.44M? Isn't is really 1440K? 1M is not 1,024,000; it is 1,048,576. 1440K divided by 1M is almost exactly 1.4 (1.40625). So why don't we call them 1.4M (which would be shorter and more accurate)? Just rambling, Hal -- Hal McMillan | "It's an ideal principle, which can be verified mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu | only under ideal conditions. Which means never. 72627.642@CompuServe.com | But it's still true."