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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD
Message-ID: <135600006@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:39:24 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Dec 19 19:13:00 1989


To those people who use DSDD disks as HD disks.  Maybe you don't worry
about losing a disk or two to data "evaporation", over a period of
time (evaporation is not a big problem if you are rewriting the disks
regularly through backups).  Statistically, your chance of losing
a small piece of time-critical work is low.

But what if your HD floppy drive fails?  Will a new floppy be able to
read ANY of your counterfeited HD disks?  The experience of
lim@iris.ucdavis.edu suggests the answer might be *NO*.

Imagine losing *all* your floppy disks at once.  Have you considered
this possibility?