From: byrne_at_austin.wireline.slb.com
Date: Sat Mar 26 1994 - 22:38:58 EST
I personally would not trust a reformatted 1.44->2.88 floppy
as a backup/archive media.
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From: <meister_at_cats.ucsc.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 13:21:41 -0800
To: tp750_at_CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: 2.88 fdd
Before I went out and bought ED floppies, I tried formatting a
generic 1.44 HD disk as a 2.88 disk using Norton
Desktop for Windows 3.0. Much to my surprise the
disk worked normally in all respects. Since then I
have been using reformatted 1.44 disks to back up
and archive my data -- which seem to hold
nearly 6 mb of data/disk in zipped form.
Before proceeding with this, I checked with someone at IBM tech
support, who was not surprised. He told me that
one can indeed format
ordinary HD disks for 2.88 -- but that they are
not as reliable for use in transferring data
between different machines. (They work best on
the drive that formatted them.) Not having access
to another 2.88 drive, I have not tested the
point.
Has any one else tried this?
doing it? (There is, I suppose, an element of
insecurity if I have to use another 2.88 drive
to recover my data, most of which is also on my
desktop in any case.) Are there other potential
problems that have not occurred to me? The ED
disks are rather expensive, and thus far my box of
them remains unopened.
Bob Meister
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