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- From: waveform@anna.az.com (Waveform)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: ?: Who sells 3.5 DD discs
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 19:50:00 GMT
- Organization: Horizon Technologies
- Message-ID: <4js0d8$3h2@barad-dur.nas.com>
- References: <4ivah9$g8a@clam.rutgers.edu> <JnHrFqk.sneas@delphi.com> <BdAr9bD.cindysimms@delphi.com>
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- In article <BdAr9bD.cindysimms@delphi.com>,
- J. E. Sears <cindysimms@delphi.com> wrote:
- >Steve Neas <sneas@delphi.com> writes:
- >
- >>High-density disks will work fine in a DD drive. They may be a bit more
- >>expensive, probably not much now that HD is the PeeCee standard.
-
- If this has been your experience, you are one lucky guy. I brought home a
- pack of 25 IBM HD disks one day and decided to test this out for myself.
-
- More than half wouldn't hold a DD format (from my '81) the ones that did
- format would give errors when trying to re access the directory after a
- day or two. A few I got to actually save files on... files that thank God
- I didn't care about, since they dissolved off the disk within a week. =)
-
- Okay I slightly exagerated, but the end result was the same. I've NEVER
- gotten HD disks to work reliably/at all with an '81. Not just mine
- either. Everyone else I've talked to can't to it either.
-
- There was a big discussion a while back, and there are those more learned
- that I on this subject, but when you get down to it, the media is
- different (between DD and HD) and the method of recording is different
- (current strengths and such.)
-
- In short -> Confusious say "He who use HD in DD soon be SOL."
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