Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes
From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SS disks
Message-ID: <167@obie.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 06:50:20 GMT
References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet>
Organization: the Well of Souls
Lines: 16
Summary: Nope, not true

In article <184chad@byuvax.bitnet>, chad@byuvax.bitnet writes:
% Question: Is it true that MACs use the top of the disk while Atari/IBM
% use the undersides?  If that is true, then all SSDD disks are *certified*
% DSDD disks as the manufacturers wouldn't know which computer is going
% to be used and therefore which side to certify...
% That is what I have heard.  If it is true, then it is the biggest scam
% around.

Nope.  The single-sided 3.5" disk drives write on the top.  The O.S.
has nothing to do with this.  A 3.5" SS disk drive is undefined in the
MS-DOS world, by the way - MS-DOS only recognizes 720K and 1.44M 3.5"
disks.
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