Posted By
Chicken
on 2012-06-03
08:05:34
 |  Re: Floppy disc usage
That's not all true... HD discs were required for 1.2MB drives, however, these were not very common. Most PCs (XTs) from that era had 5 1/4" drives for 2S/DD discs (360kb).
I had a Commodore MS-DOS 3.2 floppy disc (came with a PC I) which was a 2S/DD and it worked just fine in my 1551. I used many discs that came from PCs. Just make sure, they are not HD (in fact, these won't work properly in 1551 drives. Some 1541-II drives do format them but it's not recommended because data loss is almost guaranteed. This has been discussed here, too.).
So if you don't need what's on the PC discs just format them. It won't hurt your floppy drive. If the drive stops with an error message or retries endlessly while formatting it's either an HD disc or faulty in some other way.
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