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From: chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Chia-Chi Chao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hub rings on floppies: how important?
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Date: 2 Jul 89 19:46:20 GMT
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In article <804@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>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.

I have heard that the high density disks don't need hub rings (because of
better drives?).  I don't know if this is true though.