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From: marc@skypod.uucp (Marc Fournier)
Subject: Re: Diffs between DD & HD disks
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.054400.2126@skypod.uucp>
Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario
References: <1991Apr9.065832.16253@cs.ucla.edu> <1991Apr9.141703.5134@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr9.191024.7048@cc.tut.fi>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 05:44:00 GMT

In article <1991Apr9.191024.7048@cc.tut.fi> public@cc.tut.fi (PD Software Group) writes:
>
>
>try this (I mean if you still have those disks): Make a hole to DD
>disk at the same location than on the HD disk's HD hole is and try
>then read the disk on the HD drive. It should be usable again.
>
>
>I disagree with this. Whatever the manufacturers say about the
>differences with the media of DD and HD disks (I admit that most
>likely there is some differences between DD and HD disks), it is quite
>reliable to use 'hand-made-HDs'. A friend of mine has used such disks
>for YEARS without problems - nowadays he has 900-1000 hand-made (and
>even nameless) DD-HDs
>
	Can someone tell me if this only works with 3.5" disks, or
5.25" also?  I've got tons of DS/DD 5.25" disks that I would like to
convert to HD if possible.

Thanks


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