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Re: 1.44 MB floppys used in 880K Amiga Disk Drives
« on: May 22, 2008, 07:06:47 AM »
@rkauer, @weirdami

thats not true, at least some DD drives do have HD sensor. I know my A500 original drive has it.

the problem is that such diskettes are not reliable, in a few hours or days they might become unreadable.
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Re: 1.44 MB floppys used in 880K Amiga Disk Drives
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 05:54:04 PM »
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HD heads write 'harder' bits that are just overlayed with the 'softer' DD bits.


hmm, thats interesting.. so would this help:
-cover the hole and format it on PC as 720Kb,
-reformat on Amiga ?
Better sorry than worry.