Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:01:14 GMT
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Re-using floppies

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> I wonder what happens if you used them in a PC 1.44M drive connected to
> a Beeb (or something else that only does sd/dd), as the disk would be

Don't get 5.25" DD/HD mixed up with 3.5" DD/HD. The magnetic
coercitivity of 5.25" disks between DD and HD is something like
double, whereas with 3.5" it's about 20%, so people can have some
success formatting 3.5" HD disks to DD.

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