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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:30:14 GMT
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- >In article <82956@ut-emx.uucp> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:
- >>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.
-
- >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.
- *----
- I don't think this is the case any longer. A new PS/2-35 that I tried
- recently differentiated between DD and HD disks all by itself.
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- Mike Berger
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