Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:03:18 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 23/03/2010 01:23, Rick Murray wrote:

> I'd always believed that you cannot reformat DD discs in an HD drive, 
> for the reason that the HD head is narrower than the DD, so won't be 
> able to completely erase the (existing) data that may be there, which 
> may interfere with reading in a DD drive.

No, they are exactly the same width.  That's why you can read and write 
SD/DD in the same drive as HD, /providing/ the write current etc is set 
to the correct level for the media.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York