Re: Commodore 65 and 1581 incompatibility

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:06:02 +0100 Message-Id: <CBCD65EE-2F6E-4F90-B164-1560717389FA@wfmh.org.pl>

> On 2015-11-19, at 09:32, groepaz@gmx.net wrote:
> 
>> Some drives work reliably only with its own formatted disks due to
>> (mis)alignment so this is not a fully reliable method of checking the
>> compatibility.
> 
> yes. but misaligned drives are extremely uncommon with 3.5" drives

If we talk general (all brands/models) 3.5" then, statistically you are fully right. But you wouldn't say so if you have spent countless hours realigning countless number of FB-354s, which is what we most probably talk here about in both the 1581 and the C65 cases. 
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