RE: How many of you have problems w/ 2.88 Mb drive?

["John H. Kim" <jokim@mit.edu>]

In message Fri, 03 Mar 1995 06:07:27 -0500,
  dvchan@netcom.com (Derek V. Chan)  writes:

> and 1.44 hi-formatted diskettes?   I have data errors reading them.
> Yeah, I  know you shouldn't do this, but is this a drive error, or just
> media?
> The drive always gets media errors on the last 190 K or so of a file that
> spans the entire disk.

My hunch is it has to do with the smaller read/write heads on the 2.88MB
drive.  When I first got my 750 it read nearly all my old 1.44 diskettes.
The few it couldn't read I diskcopy'ed on another machine and it could read
the copies.  I also ran across a friend's machine who could read diskettes
written by my TP, but my TP couldn't read diskettes written by that
machine.  After my drive died and I had it replaced, it *could* read those
floppies.  So I suspect we're playing with really close tolerances here.

If it's a consistent problem, get the 2.88MB drive replaced.
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