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From: ftrue@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dr. Destruction)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Question about 3" DD, HD disks
Message-ID: <170@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 89 00:59:44 GMT
Reply-To: ftrue@jarthur.UUCP (Dr. Destruction)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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For those of you out there with a 1.4 meg 3" drive, I have a question
for you. I am running a PS/2-60 with a 1.4meg 3" drive, and when I first
got the system, I faithfully used "HD" disks when formatting for 1.4megs.
Later, after getting some DSDD disks for free, I accidentally formatted
them for 1.4meg. Well, what I expected was a lot of data errors, or 
at least degradation after a period of time.

Well to make a long story short, I've been formatting DSDD disks for
1.4megs for about 1 year now, and reading/writing them WITHOUT ERROR since
then. The price, by the way, of HD disks GREATLY overshadows the price
of DSDD disks, otherwise I'd just spend a little extra for peace of mind.
But, alas I haven't gotten one measly error, and the savings on disks 
is enough to make any college student happeee. So: although I have all my
important stuff backed up on HD, is there any reason to worry about
using DSDD for HD most of the time? Remember, NOT ONE ERROR in about 
a year!!!

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Frederick True                 ftrue@jarthur.UUCP
Harvey Mudd College	       ftrue@hmcvax.BITNET
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