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From: cds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Craig D. Singer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Using single-sided disks double-sided.
Message-ID: <9766@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 10:21:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 10:21:13 1987
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Summary: What about disk verifiers?


So SS disks are just like DS disks except that the other side has not been
tested by the manufacturer, and using SS disks as DS disks risks losing data
to a bad "other side."

Ok, but what about the disk verifiers that come with some disk utility
packages?  Do these things do the same testing as the manufacturer?  If so,
there's a cheap solution to saving money on disks without risk.

If the disk verifiers don't do what the manufacturers do, would some
well-informed soul care to describe the differences?

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