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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: more space on floppy
Message-ID: <232@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 02:53:16 GMT
References: <168@gizzmo.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Organization: Just me and my computer, Columbus Ohio
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In article <168@gizzmo.UUCP> Kdavid@gizzmo.UUCP (6900) writes:
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>You can fit at least 412,670 bytes on a single floppy using the UNIX
>
>type		FD
>name		Floppy
>cylinders	42
            ^^
Don't do this! You are asking for trouble and getting very little payoff in
return. Some floppies are not burnished out this far and will tear up your
heads. Some drives are aligned not to go out this far. The further in you
go, the less magnetic material there is holding the same amount of data. All
you need is to save 5 minutes on a backup just to have the save set trashed
from a disk error.

NO No no

John
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