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From: ugfailau@sunybcs (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hub ring
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Date: 22 Dec 87 06:51:02 GMT
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	A while ago someone mentioned why there is no hub
rings on HD diskettes. Well, in this month's issue
of PCResource there is an article about floppies.
Let me quote the author

	"The hub ring, an integral part of all 5-1/4 inch, DS, DD
disk, seems intended to correct these conditions [controlling
the size of the center hole]. Not so. Without exception, every
technician I talked to said the hub ring no longer serves a purpose,
if it ever did. Worse, if you don't put the hub on right, it can
throw off the center hole or distort the disk."

	Take it for what it's worth.

Fai  Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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