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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 1.44M disks
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Date: 13 Feb 89 16:25:03 GMT
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SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>Remember in the "old days" (5 or 6 years ago :-) using the reverse
>side of "single sided diskettes?"  The only difference between the DD
>and the HD (besides the price of course) is the warranty (have you EVER
>sent a disk back and claimed a refund because the disk didn't meet
>warranty specs???? ;-)

I've used many single-sided disks as double-sided disks, but most of my
efforts to use double-sided disks as high-density disks have met with failure.
Generally, if I didn't have problems formatting the disks, I had problems
reading/writing the disks after a period of time.  (This was with both 3.5"
and 5.25" disks.)

BTW, I noticed that while you can generally use a good single-sided 5.25" disk
as a double-sided disk, using a single-sided 3.5" disk as a double-sided disk
doesn't work nearly as well.

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