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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Which disks to use with 1571
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.082406.5055@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 91 08:24:06 GMT
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iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard N Iachetta) writes:

>What are the best kind of disks to use with a 1571 in 128 mode, double sided
>single density or double sided double density?

Basically all of the 5.25" disks I use in my 1571 are double density; double
density should work just fine.  What does NOT work, in my experience, is
HIGH density disks.  These are higher density than double density, and I don't
think the two are compatible.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu