Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DD AS HD DSKTS !
Message-ID: <269@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 02:13:51 GMT
References: <10628@ibmpcug.UUCP> <79700021@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1370@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <1370@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
:In article <79700021@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
:<There is a rumor that Sony 3.5" DSDD disks won't format at all in DSHD
:<(1.44Mb) mode.  Can anyone confirm this?
:
:a CORRECTLY WIRED 1.44M drive won't format a DSDD disk to
:1.44M. There is an extra hole in the disk to indicate that it is a HD
:disk. Without this hole the drive won't go to high density mode.
:
:Of course this is not well known, as IBM PS/2's and Compaq SLT's both
:have the drives wired "incorrectly". :-)

Someone out there is marketing a punch to puch this little hole in your 
DD disks so they can be formatted HD, I wonder how many they've sold to
unknowing Compaq & IBM owners.

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