Re: HD 5.25 format?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com> writes...

>Here we go again!
> 
>Despite the widespread library of information that Double Density and 
>High Density 3.5" disks have SIGNIFICANT differences in magnetic 
>properties (higher coercitivity of the HD media), people persist in 
>wishful thinking.
> 
>There are only TWO kinds of people who use HD disks in DD drives:
>Those who have had problems, and
>Those wo WILL have problems.
> 
>Which will YOU be?

    My point was HD 5.25" diskettes differ from HD 3.5" diskettes.
In a Double Density floppy drive, HD 5.25's are about as useful to
the drive as an old LP record (if you could fit one in ;). This is
not a matter of whether a good idea or bad, it just cannot be used.

    An HD 3.5" can be formatted and used in a Double Density 3.5
floppy drive, it will work by comparison. However, as I said in my 
original post, it is *not* recommended, and I don't think I would
personally recommend doing it either. I just wanted to dispell the
myth that a Double Density 3.5 drive would treat an HD disk in the 
same way a Double Density 5.25 drive treats an HD disk.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca