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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:07:47 GMT
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- In article <82956@ut-emx.uucp> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
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- >PS/2's, for example, stopped checking for the existence of the second hole
- >many years ago and just automatically format everything to 1.44 megs. You
- >have to type in the parameters to format to 720K for single hole disks if you
- >want clones to be able to read them.
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- Ah....
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- One strike against PS/2s. You won't believe the number of disk
- recoveries we've had to do around here with students formatting
- DD disks as HD, and these disks trashing themselves over time.
- This has to a large part stopped since the public clusters now
- have a menu system that lets one select the density one wants
- to format a given diskette, and enough word-of-mouth information
- has spread...
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