Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:18:20 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 23/03/2010 19:14, Anders Carlsson wrote:

> Lately I've come to learn about the Commodore 8050 and 8250 drives.
> Those use Tandon, Micropolis and Matsushita mechanisms and format
> a disk to 77 tracks = about 500 kB per side! :-o All the experts
> keep saying you are supposed to use the quite uncommon 100 tpi DD
> floppy disks, rather than the more usual 96 tpi DD (QD) ones.

Sometimes cheaper disks are, well, cheaper.  But there should be no 
difference at all between a disk intended for use in a 96tpi drive and a 
100tpi drive.  The drives are different but the disks are not, unless 
some manufacturer claimed theirs were subject to better quality control.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York