Date   : Mon, 05 Aug 2002 22:14:53 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Trouble with Double Density 3.5in Diskettes

In article <20020805205118.64682.qmail@...>, Simon
Marchese <simon_marchese@...> writes

>Well the documentation I got from the BBC
>Documentation Project offered *FX110 and *OPT80
>commands but they didn't have any effect on any of the
>disks I tried so I persevered with it being the media.
>I have now gone through about fifty diskettes and
>found five which will format without errors.

Are the disks you're formatting real double-density disks?  High density
disks (with the extra hole and "HD" in the corner) will not work
properly on double density drives - the media coercivity is different.

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