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From: mbt@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Brad Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Formatting 720K disks to 1.44 Megs HELP!!
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Date: 29 Nov 89 01:17:47 GMT
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gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) writes:
>I wanted to do some high volume backups by using regular,
>low cost 720K generic disks and formatting them to 1.44 megs..

Why are you willing to spend the time to do a floppy disk backup
but aren't concerned about the media you backup on? Why bother
with the backup at all if you are knowingly going to use media
that is suspect to failure? Wouldn't it be more more prudent to
spend the additional $$ and have an archive that is not as likely
to fail? It is your data to do with as you please, but wouldn't
be more sensible to make your archives with the appropriate media?

-brad-

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