Re: Frustrated: Can't get DOS anywhere

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

I think you're confusing DSHD (1.2MB) sloppies withDSDD (360k) ones. DSDD
should work fine.
Mr. Ross need to make sure the sloppies he's got are indeed DSDD and not DSHD.

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:yTFCc.18759$Fo4.243820@typhoon.sonic.net...

: Double-density disks would be your culprit, it looks like. Many folks
: have made mention of the fact that DD disks need a bit more magnetic
: "oomph" to write to them than what the Apple drives (originally designed
: for single-density media) can put out. The difference is the magnetic
: media used on single versus double-density disks. The coating on a
: single-density disk is more "susceptible" to being (de)magnetized than
: that on a double-density disk.