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From: mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly)
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Subject: Re: Low Density vs High Density
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Date: 22 Feb 91 08:29:15 GMT
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In article <6481@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@burn.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>If you format a low density disk in a high density drive as high
>density, then the disk will be treated with a much-too-powerful
>electromagnetic field.  When you set one bit of information, you'll
>probably end up erasing four or five nearby bits.
>

I've been doing this for almost two years now, and haven't had any problems.
(Not that I don't believe you.)  I'm a poor starving student and can't afford
the _real_ HD disks, so I just put a hole in the corner of a DD disk, and
voila!  (I'm using a IIcx, if that matters.)

Mike.
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