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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DD AS HD DSKTS !
Message-ID: <572@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 18:03:29 GMT
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Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
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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?
>Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois

It's true, sort of. Here's my experience. We have 2 IBM PS/2 (30 and 60) and
several third party AT clones. They all have 1.44M 3.5" drives. 

Using (different brands) DSDD (720K) disks, I tried to format them to 1.44M

THe PS/2's do this just fine, but the clones won't read these disks and will
not format them to 1.44M, so I think it depends on the 3.5" drive you have.
Not the brand of disk. Buy a box and try it out.




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