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Re: Couldnt format cylinder 0
« on: March 11, 2013, 01:13:45 PM »
Formatting a HD 3.5 Floppy drive as 800k will at some point in the future cause problems

HD disks use a more powerful magnetic field to write a track. So formatting a floppy might be problematic.

720k Type Drives use a coercivity of  600 Osterds
1440k use 720

so if you write on media that expects a write strength of 720 but its only getting 600.

Same if you try to fool a floppy drive into formatting a DSDD as DSHD except the media get over magnetized and can partially overwrite neighboring tracks