[geeks] ug ... Help!

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Aug 1 12:36:59 CDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:53:20PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   One really quick word of advice...if they're really old, check to see
> if they're 360K disks.  If they are, AND if you have trouble reading
> them in a 1.2MB drive, try them again in a 360K drive.  The 1.2MB
> high-density drives use narrower track width; this frequently caused
> problems when reading 360K floppies.

Wow.  I know where to get 1.2 meg disks, but clueless for finding 360k drives.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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