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Re: Good source for "new" 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks?

winston19842005 wrote:



On 9/18/07 7:53 AM, in article
zOKdne9oWf62IXLbnZ2dnUVZ_uiknZ2d@giganews.com, "Steven Hirsch"
<snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:


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.


Sorry, you are confusing HD 5.25" with 3.5" HD (here we go again, <sigh>!).
Are you claiming that the coercivity specs are the same between 3.5" "standard" density and HD media? 


Besides, in my case I AM using an HD 3.5" drive, just in LD mode...
I genuinely am not sure of this, but doesn't the drive drop the write current in LD modes? If 3.5" drives are different, can you point me to some documentation to confirm this?
Not trying to be argumentative, but your statements don't jive with my understanding and I'd like to get clear on the subject.