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From: conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about diskette densities
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Date: 19 Jun 89 13:12:34 GMT
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In article <2210@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>on my 1.2 meg 5.25" drive I can format DS/DD disks at 1.2 meg?  What am I
>risking by not buying HD disks?  etc.

i doubt it very much. lots of bad sectors. you might be able to get away with
800K or so(and a bunch of bad sectors), but i'd question the reliability
later.
people always 'used' to do the cut a new write protect tab on single sided
disks.
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