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- From: ssmith@ncdel.enet.dec.com (Sheldon E. Smith)
- Subject: Using DD disks as HD disks?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.001013.15268@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Keywords: disks, disk drive
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec28.194553.18651@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec30.104013.28558@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:10:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.104013.28558@Princeton.EDU>,
- bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst) writes:
- |>HD diskettes are coated,
- |>like DD, but then polished more to reduce surface bumps that would
- |>produce magnetic irregularities. This thins the coating. The lower
- |>density drive is designed to penetrate a thick coating with
- |>magnetism;
- |>when it does this to the thin coating, the magntic domains grow
- |>sideways rather than downward and may interfere with other tracks.
- |>
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- From this and other things said, can I use (cheaper) 3 1/2 DD disks in my HD
- drive without problems? Assuming I ADD THE SECOND HOLE?
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