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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DD/HD Disks
Message-ID: <1462@grape3.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 19:01:02 GMT
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In article <7929@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> bruss@odin.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:
>	In a recent mailorder catalog I received, "High Density"
>disks were advertised -- double sided, able to hold 2Meg of data.
>The ad mentioned that Macs and IBM (of some varieties) can use these
>-- can an Amiga?

Yes and no.  Yes, you can stick them in an Amiga and use them normally.
No, you can't put 2 Meg of data on them.  The disk-drive hardware just
isn't designed to write higher-density data.  As far as the Amiga is
concerned, you'll just be using a standard floppy.

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