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From: s160041@castor.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
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Subject: Re: SE/30s, Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Date: 9 May 89 19:28:53 GMT
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In article <27547@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> jbrugge@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (John Brugge) writes:
>In article <13380@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (James Osborne) writes:
>> What is the deal with this FDHD I have? I work in the computer store at
>> the college, with consultants surrounding me, and it wasn't until I went to
>> format a disk with my new SE/30 that I learned that you have to buy a different
>> kind of diskette to use the 1.4 meg option.  Am I right here?  I can not 
>> format a double sided disk as 1.4M? This is the first the store has heard
>> of it since we don't even carry HD 3.5 disks.  Ugh!
>
>Making your DSDD disks into HD disks is probably about as risky
>as formatting SSDD disks as DSDD -- they work most of the time,
>but you can't go crying to Sony when you lose your data.
>
>John


Acutally, trying to use a DSDD disk as an HD is *MUCH* riskier than
trying to use a SS as a DS (gee, could I use some MORE abbreviations?)

On most MS-DOS systems, a DS disk simply will not format as HD.  The number
of tracks per inch is different.  Even if you got lucky and the disk did
format, the chance of it working for any length of time is prett slim.


Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu      *          AppleLink : ST0178 

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