Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!pff From: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD Message-ID: <21468@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 14 Dec 89 00:34:49 GMT References: <16918215MES@MSU> <5912@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 19 In article <5912@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes: >In article <16918215MES@MSU> you write: > > I know a few people that REGULARLY format 800k disks to HD format. They > > IS YOUR DATA WORTH THE RISK? From what I know, using a single/double sided disk as a High density increases the changes of the disk going bad later (specially if you drill holes, Auch! pieces of plastic can fall on the disk drive or inside the disk). -- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu - Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO READ SIGNATURES ... I am graduating next year and I am looking for a job. MS/BS EE, my graduate work incorporates OO-DBMS/Graphics/Robotics/AI