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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about diskette densities
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Date: 19 Jun 89 14:25:41 GMT
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In article <2210@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
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<I'm beginning to doubt common sense about diskette densities.  Both
<single and double sided diskettes can be formatted as if they were
<double.  I'm told it's simply a difference in quality control.  On my
<new 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.

You are risking loss of data, because the regular diskettes will not format
under the 1.2 meg writing currents.  You will have many bad sectors and who
knows how many will be marginal.  Once a diskette (that is not HD) is formatted
that way, they normally will not format the correct way.  I have done it.
The diskette had to be thrown away.
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