Re: Disk ][ Drives not working

["Igor" <ikanja@despam....com>]

Don Bruder wrote:

> Bingo... There's a very likely explanation for your trouble.
> 
> Betcha your drives and controllers are just fine. You problem is the 
> disks. Disk II's are known for not putting out enough electromagnetic 
> "oomph" to properly write on DD disks, which didn't exist back when 
> those drives were designed, and require more power being applied to
> them to write a bit than the same bit that's destined for a
> single-density disk - The end result is like trying to write on a
> tyvek disk envelpe with a pencil - it "just doesn't take".

I don't have much knowledge about this, but I'm still using DD disks
with my diskII and I've never had problems...
Also, I suppose that many of the disks he has received are probably
been made using a diskII....

Igor