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From: leo@ashtate (Leo C.P. Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: HD from LD
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.000954.2787@ashtate>
Date: 2 Dec 90 00:09:54 GMT
References: <1990Nov22.143403.9911@stretch.cs.mun.ca>
Reply-To: leo@ashton.UUCP (Leo C.P. Leung)
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Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <1990Nov22.143403.9911@stretch.cs.mun.ca> sauron@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
>I, too, have tried punching the extra hole to format low-density 3.5's
>as high.  I found that I got a few bad sectors, and have gotten several
>data errors on these diskettes, usually in files occurring between the 500
>to 900 Kb mark on the diskette.  In other words, the outer part of the disk
>media.  Now, whether this is due to particles on the media, or the fact that
>thses are LOW end 3.5's, I have no idea.  Anybody else have a similar
>problem?  I've got a HD Panasonic 3.5" drive, could it be that's a problem?
>
   In general the DS/DD 3.5" should be able to format to 1.44Meg.
   All the disk's platters are punched out from the same magnectiv
   sheets.  (They are about table-size then put through circular cutters
   to cut out the platters then assemble as floppies)
   I had tried formatting DS/DD on an IBM PS/2 without problems.
   Hmmm....  Maybe you should consider switching to TEAC.
  - Leo -
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