Re: HD floppies in a DD drive.

[hbcsc419@huey.csun.edu]

>cassettes).  I know from sad experience that you CAN format and use the
>1.44MB diskettes in a conventional A2 800K drive (getting 800K capacity,
>of course!), but then a few weeks later you'll find that you are getting
>fatal disk errors and will have lost your data.

I'd have to differ with you on this one. I've been using HD disks in my
Apple 3.5" 800k drive for 2 years now, and have had no fatal disk errors.
I have the rare occurence of a file being corrupted, but that could happen
on a DD disk just as easily as on a HD disk. One disk in particular, I've
been saving Appleworks and other word processor files on since 1994. It's
a HD disk, and has given me no trouble. Perhaps its the quality of media
you used. Some companies make good disks, while others make cheap disks,
passing the savings AND low quality down to the consumers. I've been using
Dysan and Maxell disks. They seem to be good quality disk manufacturers.

Randy R. Rouch
Student, California State University, Northridge