Date : Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:51:30 +0100 (BST)
From : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: Re-using floppies
I have used many HD 3.5" disks in DD drives without any problems at all.
The same is not true for 5.25" disks, however. HD 5.25" disks simply do
not work at all in DD drives, in my experience.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, naz sajid wrote:
>
> I have used HD flopies with my bbc usung both a DD and HD drive. I have
written and read from these drives with no problems whatsoever. In fact
I have written to over 40 floppies without problems and the copied progarms
were all protected. If there were problems then surely the protection incorporated
in the diffrent programs woyld have picked it up and not run?
>
>
>
> Naz
>
> > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:18:42 +0000
> > From: zeem.uk@...
> > To: bbc-micro@...
> > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re-using floppies
> >
> > On 22 March 2010 06:58, Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:
> >
> > >> and the fact that modern HD floppies come preformatted as
> > >>FAT12, so so reformatting them with a double-density format doesn't
> > >>work properly.
> > >
> > > I don't see how the choice of filesystem has an effect on the ability to
> > > format.
> >
> > The idea was that reformatting a 1.44MB HD disk in a DD drive will
> > leave traces of the original formatting behind (as they're always
> > preformatted for DOS/Windows), causing the unreliability. Using a bulk
> > eraser is meant to eliminate this problem, as it will turn them into
> > completely blank disks that can be formatted in a DD drive more
> > reliably.
> >
> > As I said, it's something I read once and have never tried in practice.
> >
> > --
> > Alex Taylor
> >
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