Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:52:47 GMT
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Re-using floppies

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

No, that's the difference between a 40-track drive and an 80-track
drive. The only difference between DD recording and HD recording is
the write current.

There's an old article about this on my site at
http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Densities

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