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- From: swartz@fraser.sfu.ca (Norman Swartz)
- Subject: Re: DD->HD 3.5 disks
- Message-ID: <swartz.715542362@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Sep3.150827.11066@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:46:02 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA) writes:
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- >I have a friend who converts his DD 3.5 inch disks to
- >HD by putting the extra hole in the disk. He says he hasn't
- >had any trouble doing this, but some lab administrators here
- >say it shouldn't be done.
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- >I know they even sell a tool to do this for you.
-
- >Anybody else do this and what kind of success have you had?
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- >Any comments, opinions are welcome.
-
- >Thanks
- >--
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- > bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu | Oh, fruddled gruntbuggly, thy |
- > North Carolina State | nacturations are to me ... |
- > University - Raleigh | Vogon poetry |
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- I tried it once. Two days later the disk was unreadable. This was the
- only time I had a 3.5" disk which lost data. I have never repeated
- the experiment.
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