1.44 MB floppys used in 880K Amiga Disk Drives

[rkauer]

 Those HD diskette have a prone to fail due they different magnetic surface.

 In every disk box I buy, I usually only take 5~6 for Amiga stuff. :angry:

 BTW: the original Amiga floppy unit is DD, so putting an HD disk inside doesn't matter. It will only be formatted in 880k.

[rkauer]

orange wrote:
@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.

 I know they have. But the switch is useless on Amiga units (but the rare HD ones).

 I agree with using HD disks on Amiga is a no-no. Since HD disks needs a stronger magnetic field to properly store data, the DD unit can't cope with it and the disk will lost the magnetic data stored in an unpredictable time. :angry: