On 10/31/2011 6:46 PM, Mark Frischknecht wrote:
On 2011-10-31 21:10:21 +0000, Tony Cianfaglione said:On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Mark Frischknecht wrote:It may seem to work but in the end it will fail.Gee, Mark... I've been using them repeatedly in my II's for over 25 years - when does the end come?Probably when it is most inconvenient. I have seen the problem happen, at Kfest a programmer was handing out copies of software h programed on 3.5 HD disks formatted as 800k and none of the disks were readable.
That's the thing: as another poster pointed out, it seems to be particular to the drive. Perhaps Tony's drive is one of those highly-capable ones. I've not been lucky, myself. Generally, the disk will fail immediately after writing - so I just don't do it.