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From: scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter)
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Subject: Re: Disk space for FREE (was Re: super high density formatters)
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Date: 16 Nov 90 12:41:06 GMT
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In article <4319@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) writes:
>There is a better way to gain
>diskspace : use DD disks, punch a hole in it (just opposite the write-protect
>tab), and format it to HD. This way you gain 100% disk space for FREE!!!
>[...]
>it is perfectly safe (I did this
>to about 60 disks, and they did not give one format/read/write/... error at
>all!. The only recomendation I have is that you should use GOOD disks (3M or

I have no doubt that this worked fine on your machine, but have you used
those disks extensively on a machine other than the one they were
formatted on?  I find that this is where you usually run into trouble
when formatting DD disks as HD.  Has anyone else experienced this?

Scott D. Coulter
scott@cc.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech Software Engineering Research Center