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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SS disks
Message-ID: <194@obie.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:43:47 GMT
References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet> <167@obie.UUCP> <613@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch
Lines: 20
Summary: Yah, but you can't format them!

In article <167@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) rambles:
% 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.

In article <613@lakesys.UUCP>, rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) writes:
> 	Wrong. MS-DOS will work with 360K SS disks also. All one hase 
> to do is change the information in the config.sys file and one can 
> make MS-DOS work with SS drives, a 5 1/4 and a SS drive  or DS drive
> and a SS drive  or any combination of the above. 

Yes, a couple of days ago, I re-read the options to the DEVICS.SYS
device driver.  You can make MS-DOS recognize just about any
combination that the floppy controller can handle now; you just can't
format them with the DOS formatter (which is brain-dead anyhow).
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