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I recall it was also not unheard of to have floppy drives that could be incompatible with each other. A drive that was a tad slow might format a disk that would
by brk 3y ago
I recall it was also not unheard of to have floppy drives that could be incompatible with each other. A drive that was a tad slow might format a disk that would work for itself, and other drive, but that disk might not work in a drive that was a tad too fast (and vice-versa). This wasn't common, just frequently enough to occur so occasionally as to always be baffling, particularly in an office with lots of PCs.
Then there were things like Spiradisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiradisc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiradisc), which created incompatibilities by design.
- jacquesm 3y agoThis happened with tape drives too. Head alignment or track alignment a little bit off and you'd start to lose the high pretty quickly.
- shard 3y agoI remember having to realign my Commodore 1541 floppy drive, which involved a lot of banging sounds if I recall.
- 15457345234 3y agoAt high school (in the 1.44mb / w95 era) I encountered a floppy disk that had literally two different filesystems on it depending on what machine you read it in. Not entirely sure how that worked. One machine showed one filesystem, the rest showed another. I guess the alignment on that one particular drive must have been ridiculously far off baseline.
- ggeorgovassilis 3y agoI remember that, too. Got such a floppy from a computer magazine. I think one was for the PC and then other for Amiga or Atari.