Doorst: Re: CBM 8280

g.j.p.a.a.baltissen_at_kader.hobby.nl
Date: 1999-09-03 21:34:33

Hallo Bo,


> Now, I know that many IBM-ready 5.25" disks are unusable in Commodore 
> disks drives.  I assume that is because GCR uses more of the disk 
> surface than MFM, and that many IBM-ready floppies aren't high enough 
> quality.  

Just FYI, I have the opposite experience. Way back in the 80's I used 
old floppys which my PC didn't dig anymore for my C= an dmost of the 
time WO any problem. The time I had problems the floppy was damaged 
physically in one or another way.

Groetjes, Ruud

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