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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
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Subject: Re: A3000 high density floppy drive with AMAX support!
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.013112.18002@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 01:31:12 GMT
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In article <1026@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <1991Mar27.141826.11339@fwi.uva.nl> groenewo@fwi.uva.nl (Ferry van het Groenewoud) writes:
	[ lots o' deletions ]
>
>>Will it be able to format DD disks with HD capacity (ie. will it look for
>>the hole in HD disks or not? I hope it won't).
>
>No, you definitely need HD disks. DD's really can't hold that much of
>data, else this would have been common for some years already.

	Yes they can!  It's not a good idea, and not safe for the long term,
but if you're just transporting few megabytes of files down to your local
NeXT (or other system running HD/ED drives) SOME DD disks can take it.

	However, the drive SHOULD be checking for that hole anyway.  Let's
just have it documented so some of us can BYPASS the switch :-)

	That's another thing, any chance these new drives could do ED (2.88
MB)?  I know that would mean running at QUARTER speed, but some sacrifices
are worth it for that extra capacity...

	-- C P.
	mrush@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

	And of course you take this information at YOUR OWN RISK!