Re: Disks for 3.5" drive

[tcompter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Compter)]

The Jeffster! (jeffster@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have an Apple 3.5" disk drive, and when I see that there is an 800k 
: capacity of the disks, I worry, because double-sided, or "low-density" 
: disks are formatted to 720k with an IBM. Are regular low-density disks 
: usable on the drive? If not, then can I use a high-density disk and just 
: have the drive format it to 800k? thanks in advance.

The 720k disks will work fine once you reformat them in your Apple. 
The HD disks will work, but will cause confusion if you ever put 
the disk in a Mac drive, say, to transfer data.  I have heard from
some sources that the media of the HD disks is actually not 
compatible with the Apple 800k drives, but I can't verify that 
from my own experience. 
 
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