Timeline for Mismatched floppy disk/drive reading and writing, what should one keep in mind?
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| Apr 7, 2020 at 13:22 | history | edited | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Merge Kaz’s suggestion, thanks!
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| Apr 7, 2020 at 13:03 | comment | added | Kaz | Yes, 3.5" floppies, transferring files from a PC to an Acorn Archimedes (DOS 720k format). | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | @Kaz with 3.5” floppies? I’ve had problems doing that with 5.25” floppies, but not so much with 3.5” floppies (which of course only means I haven’t run into troublesome situations). | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 12:42 | comment | added | Kaz | I have personal experience of using DSDD disks to transfer many files from a HD system to a DD system. Deleting / overwriting files in the HD system led to read errors on the DD end. A good workaround was to format the disk in the DD system after each transfer, before writing fresh data onto the blank disk in the HD system. | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 11:40 | vote | accept | Alexander M | ||
| Apr 7, 2020 at 11:35 | history | answered | Stephen Kitt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |