Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Floppies Message-ID: <1991Jun23.003745.21709@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <20804@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 00:37:45 GMT Lines: 17 >.. And if you happened to format a DD disk in a Compaq Portable III with >no special parameters, only way to recover some information from the disk >with another computer is to punch new hole in the disk. Neat :) Naah... just take it to the nearest IBM PS/2 - they have the same problem. In fact I'm surprised to hear that Compaq doesn't put autosensing drives in its computers either.. Darn! Why is it that the most expensive of PCs don't have autosensing drives? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------