Timeline for Can I use a 2880 KiB ED floppy disk in a drive that uses the standard 1440 KiB HD disk?
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| May 3, 2020 at 14:25 | comment | added | dave | Probably you're right - it's been, what, 3 decades since I saw a 2.88MB disk drive! | |
| May 3, 2020 at 11:26 | comment | added | Michael Karcher | Downformatting 2.88MB disks to 1.44MB is likely to be very unreliable, because 1.44MB disks use longitudinal recording, whereas 2.88MB disks use perpendicular recording. Because of the different recording type, you need different magnetic properties of the medium. | |
| May 2, 2020 at 23:30 | history | answered | dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |