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From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Flippy Floppys for Flippin PC's
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 00:55:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 00:55:40 1987
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> Anybody know why I can not make flippy floppys (use a dsdd disk as 2 ssdd
> floppy disks) on my IBM-PC compatible?
>
> Mike Godawski    {ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!akgua!usceast!godawski

The answer is in the disk pads.  These are the white sheets between
the floppy disk and its outside envelope.  The disk pads are designed
to pick up and hold onto loose oxide that flakes off the disk.  They
only work in one direction.  If you reverse the rotation, you'll
be knocking the loose crud out of the disk pads and back onto the
disk.  The result is that you can't reliably read or write the disk
because of all the crud getting between the disk and the head.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.