There are 360k drives other than the XF551 but they are fairly rare, they also use a different track layout than the XF551 for side 2. There are exceptions to the hub ring 'rule', but I've never seen one. That dbl sided floppy can only be read on a XF-551, so it is better to Make a 360K double sided disk, I think that is the XF-551. ![]() Only one A8 floppy I'm familiar with can format both sides and The left side of a floppy and make it a 'flippy', format the back side. Most Atari 8-bit floppy drives are single density, meaning they can only format and hold 90K on a single side. I can't remember how much high density floppies hold, I'm sure it was more than 1 meg, seems like 1.2 megs. Will format to 90K single density or 180K double density and they have a hub ring, a ring of shiny plastic around the center big hole. High density floppies don't have the hub ring. You can't use high density 5.25" floppies.
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