winston19842005 wrote:
WalMart and other office supply stores sell *high density* disks. Though you can use such disks in a pinch (I'm told), what I'm looking for is 800k double-density disks.Well, we Tiers use them all the time in our 720k drives, just tape over the density hole.
You must enjoy data loss, then. The heads on low density drives cannot generate a field sufficient to fully saturate domains on the media. Don't bet the farm on being able to read those disks back after a few years.
I'm starting to find that most "low" (DD) density 3.5" diskettes are bad out of the box. Whenever I need to use them with either my Apples or Amigas, I end up throwing out 3 of 5 for format/verify errors. I'd like to think that it's bad drives, but I have a pile of them and the bad disks are well and truly... bad.
Steve