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Subject: Diffs between DD & HD disks
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From: jdwhite@iastate.edu (White Jason David)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 17:00:17 GMT
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	In a recent catalog from The Software Labs, I saw an ad for a "Disk
Doubler".  It's a $34 piece of hardware that puts a hole in DD disks to make
disk drives think that they're HD disks.  Here are an excerpt from the ad:

	...will convert your low cost 3 1/2" 720K disks to work at high cost
1.44MB disks with NO COMPROMISE in media reliability. [...] This is possible
because there is no difference at all between the media in 720K and 1.44MB
disks used today! ...


This ad is EXTREMELY bogus!  I can tell many horror stories of people who have
attempted to do this, only to lose data in a matter of days.  I know that there
IS a diffenence in the type of media used in DD and HD disks, but this ad
really surprised me.  I'd like to know what you netters think of this ad.
I hate to think of all the people out there that believe this ad.
Please post your comments to the net.