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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Single-sided microflops as Double-sided.
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 12:53:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 12:53:20 1986
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> Ive heard many conflicting reports concerning the advisability of using
> single-sided 3.5" disks to format as double-sided...

This has come up elsewhere on the net in the context of 5-inch floppies.
Unless there are special considerations for the 3.5 jobs, the answer is:
it's not guaranteed to work.  It is not uncommon to test both sides of
disks and to sell the ones with one bad side as single-sided.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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