Floppy format question.

[Gene Heskett]

Roy Henning wrote:
> It sounds like your floppy drive has failed or you are using inferior
> disks.
>
> Roy Henning
>
>   
>>>> satimis at yahoo.com 05/11 9:50 AM >>>
>>>>         
> Hi folks,
>
> On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed to
> get through verification, such as
>
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read 10240
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 14336
> etc.
>
> Format has no problem.  Please advise how to fix them.
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>   
This is, generally speaking, about what I get when I try to use an HD 
diskette in a drive thats truely DD compatible.  It simply doesn't drive 
the record head hard enough to get the HD media's attention, so the 
verify fails.

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Cheers, Gene