RX26 drive & DSDD floppy's (good & bad)

From: George Gallen <ggallen_at_slackinc.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 10:27:34 -0400

We have a 2100 with the 2.88 floppy drive, by accident we placed a
DSDD 3 1/2 (not a HD - there was only 1 hole on the case - write
protect)
Since we had a recent intermittant drive failure, we have been verifying
readability of the floppies on PC (in the 1.44 format).

The Bad:
   We used MTOOLS to write files to the disk - it wrote it, no errors.
    Tried to read it with the PC, no good - gibberish, the PC tried to
    read it in DSDD format (because there was no HD Hole). When
    we placed it back in the rx26, it read the disk fine......

The Good:
   The rx26 will format/write to a floppy regardless of what type the
casing
   says it is.

The quesion:
   Is it (Rx26) supposed to ignore these "holes", even if the media can
   handle the higher density format??

George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Received on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 16:45:00 NZST

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