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From: cxw3455@isc.rit.edu (C.X. Woodward )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Diffs. between DD & HD disks
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.230406.13047@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 23:04:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.172401.25285@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <1991Apr6.172401.25285@news.iastate.edu> jdwhite@iastate.edu (White Jason David) writes:
>
>	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. 
>
>This ad is EXTREMELY bogus! 

I have been doing this for quite some time, and have been using it for my home
computer for about a year.  I have not had ANY disks that didn't accept the 
higher density. (aprox 800 disks)  I always check the disks with PCTools just
to be sure, and I advise this to anyone who does this.  I have only found one 
disk that wouldn't comply, that was from a friend, and we wound up covering the
hole and re formating it as a 720k.  So, yes- be careful if you do this, but
no- it is in no way bogus.

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