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From: wichers@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (John Wichers)
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Subject: Re: Formatting 800k as HD ?!?
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Date: 29 May 90 19:42:25 GMT
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In article <30281@cup.portal.com> Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) writes:
>1. Single-sided diskettes should be formatted at single-sided. Double-sided
>diskettes should be formatted as double-sided. High-Density disks should be
>formatted at high density. Mac disks should be formatted on a Mac. PC disks
>should be formatted on a PC, or on an FDHD Mac running Apple File Exchange.

I love people who blindly follow the party line. 

The only difference between single sided disks and double sided disks is that
only one side is verified for the single sided disks. I have been formatting 
SS/DD disks as DS for a number of years now, and I haven't had any
more problems with those disks than with the DS/DD disks I have. Sure,
sometimes a SS/DD disk can't be formatted as DS, but in those instances I
just reformat them as SS. No problem.

As I've only got a vanilla SE, I haven't had to deal with HD disks enough to
be able to argue for one side or another in the current debate.

--jjw

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