[Coco] Re: Floppy Disks

Charlie chazbeenhad at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 9 00:45:49 EST 2005


"Alex Evans" <alxevans at concentric.net> wrote in 
message news:75bed966c410ed69136a73d3e399ed95 at concentric.net...
> 5.25" HD media will not work in DD drives.  If you manage to format them 
> at all you will likely have a number of bad sectors, and even the "good" 
> sectors will go bad very quickly.

That depends on the drive. I have an old panasonic 360K drive that can use 
HD disks just fine.
And, all of my HD disks I used with this drive and my coco back in the early 
90s still work great.

Charlie






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