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Offline Ilwrath

Re: 1.44 MB floppys used in 880K Amiga Disk Drives
« on: May 22, 2008, 03:32:00 AM »
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Countzero, does the Amiga floppy really have the technology of saying "ok.... I am not successfully magnetizing this disk so I better up my power to see if that works".


Nope.... I don't think you'll have that happen either.  But, you'll get a lot more random track and sector errors.  And you'll get a much shorter lifespan for the data.  I used some HD disks on Amiga maybe 10 years ago.  Almost all of those disks were unreadable within a year or two.  Where as the DS/DD disks from 15+ years ago (stored in the same boxes) STILL have 90% or more readable.

Also, you only need the tape on a DS/DD disk to read it on a High Density drive.  (If a high density drive detects the hole in the disk, it will try to read it as high density, and will not retry to read it as a low density after the high density read fails.)