Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:7527 comp.multimedia:330 comp.misc:12069 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.multimedia,comp.misc,connect.audit Subject: Re: Diffs between DD & HD disks Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 10:53:28 GMT References: <1991Apr9.075828.2135@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1991Apr10.075541.638@kessner.denver.co.us> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: david@kessner.denver.co.us's message of 10 Apr 91 07:55:41 GMT In article <1991Apr10.075541.638@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes: [......] I for one will never use disks beyond their rating (ie, using DD as HD, or SS as DS). While it may work for the most part, you do get more errors than normal-- perhapse only one critical error every 10-20 disks but you never know WHEN that error will pop up. I'd rather have some piece of mind, rather than play Russian Roulette... Why ? Do you have your mind backed up in a floppy ? -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?