Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!martyn
From: martyn@garfield.UUCP (Martyn Quigley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk holes and other strange things (was Re: F-15 Strike Eag)
Keywords: What about 3.5" discs?
Message-ID: <4559@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 16:03:44 GMT
References: <3037@cup.portal.com> <3186@cup.portal.com> <3255@cup.portal.com> <1412@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <4709@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: martyn@garfield.UUCP (Martyn Quigley)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <4709@ecsvax.UUCP> mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell) writes:
>In article <1412@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, ttang@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Theodore Tang) writes:
>> The index hole on the floppy disk is used only for formatting purposes so all
>> tracks remain in sync.  When the disk is read, the hole is not used.  I'm not
>> sure about writes.
>
>On older disk drives you can actually cover the index hole with an
>opaque write protect tab and still read or write. However you need
>the index hole for formatting.
>

Any comments about 3.5" discs?  I have just formatted one, and I can't find
any index hole in it.