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From: hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Disk space for FREE (was Re: super high density formatters)
Message-ID: <4329@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 19 Nov 90 11:45:22 GMT
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In <17184@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter) writes:

->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?

Yes, I HAVE tested this on other computers as well (I own a TRIGEM-386VE, 
and I have tested it on both a LASER-286 and an OLIVETTI-286 machine).
So I know it is safe (for 3M I am very sure, some KODAK disks gave me a hard
time on the OLIVETTI, allthough I could still read and write them).

Hope this informs you enough,


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