Re: 800KB DD disk reliability in SuperDrives?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

geoff wrote:
>   To: Warren Ernst
> Let me try this again.
>
> It is not unusual to have 800K disks not format on a SuperDrive, but format 
> correctly on the Apple 3.5.  It is also not unusual to have perfectly fine 
> 800k not be readable/writable by SuperDrives.  I recommend to use only 800k on 
> the low density drive and only 1.4 megs disks on the high density drives.

Perhaps this is related to head width...though ISTR that the number
of tracks is the same for both densities.

If track width has anything to do with it, then if a diskette is
*erased* before formatting (perhaps with a strong magnet passed
over the entire diskette), it ought to format fine.

-michael

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