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[Pete Turnbull]

dwight elvey wrote:

> I've been told that there are a few that don't support the 720KB.
> I'm not sure what tyhe difference is for the drive. The rpm isn't changed,
> just that they use FM instead of MFM. It might be that they change the
> size of the read data pulse or something.

It's not FM.  The format commonly referred to as 720K is MFM (double 
density), but at half the data rate of the HD format (which is also 
MFM), and that's why the write currents are different and the disks are 
different coercivities.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York