Date   : Thu, 03 Sep 1992 19:25:11 GMT
From   : destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!crash!donm@gumby.wisc.edu (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: 720K 5-1/4" diskettes

Francis J Park (killer@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
: Can't you just use standard 1.2MB floppies on a 720k drive?
: It seems since the media is the same, it should work.
:
 Sorry, the media are distinctly NOT the same!  It is unlikely that the
 720 drive could even successfully format the disk - much less write data 
 to it.  The 1.2 floppy requires a much higher magnetic force to write 
 to it.