Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!walleye!tempest From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT floppy disks Message-ID: <1990Dec16.093107.26718@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 09:31:07 GMT References: <1990Dec16.072544.233@rice.edu> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Distribution: usa Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 17 In article <1990Dec16.072544.233@rice.edu> jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes: >proper change on the disk. What I mean is that with a low-density >720k disk, drilling a hole in a corner will make the disk an HD one >(or at least that's what the drive thinks it is). If you think you can get away with drilling a hole on a DSDD floppy hoping it will work with the same reliability as a DSHD disk, you are terribly mistaken. The converted disk will work initially, but the chances of data staying on the disk reliably is unknown because of the different magnetic formulation used on HD disks. This difference in materials is even more dramatic between HD and ED diskettes. Ken ______________________________________________________________________________ tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|