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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hub rings on floppies: how important?
Message-ID: <804@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 20:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
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Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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I've been using floppies for quite a while without thinking about this,
but I just went to Egghead ^Discount Software and got a box of their
bulk HighDensity Floppy disks to use with my new 286, and lo and behold
the disks did not have hub rings.

Well, I just don't know whether to worry about this or not.

I'm looking for anyone with actual experience which bears on the the
usefulness or neccessity of hub rings on floppies.  I can figure out
for myself that they might make a difference if something tried to
tear the center of this disk, but I don't know how likely this is to
ever happen.  The HD drive I'm using is one of those where the disk
sort of "clicks" into place, so I'm not likely to try to use it with
the disk only partly inserted, for instance.

Also, is there any good way to put rings on these puppies if I get
convinced I should have them?