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From: knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen)
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Subject: Re: DS HD floppies
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Date: 21 Jun 91 16:58:30 GMT
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I guess I'm just lucky -- my old Compaq Portable II (286 AT)
can format HD disks as DD and read/write them OK.  So far.
The guy who sold it to me told me the drive was HD 1.2 Meg,
so I bought and scrounged some HD diskettes, and found oaut the
hard way that I couldn't get more than 360KB on them.

What tipped me off was trying one of Norton's quick formats on a
used HD floppy -- of course that didn't work.

However, raw DOS format of a virgin HD seems to work, tho I
shouldn't take a chance on this with valuable data.
I shouldn't have much trouble trading a couple boxes of HD flops
for the same number of DD floppies :-)
-- 
"What America needs is A Thousand Points When Lit..."
	knudsen@ihlpl.att.com