Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!mtuni!psu From: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: HD floppies Summary: Becareful when you add the hole Message-ID: <2858@mtuni.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Mar 90 05:48:50 GMT References: <1990Mar5.205252.28816@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <90065.140254JAM160@psuvm.psu.edu> Reply-To: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ, USA Lines: 6 If you do decide to make a DS/DD disk into a HD by punching a hole, make sure you use one of those special convertor tools they sell in the computer store, or if you are on a budget, a soldering iron (to burn a hole through it). If you try to drill a hole through it, you'll leave pieces of plastic inside your disk, and it will fail. I do not know how reliable DS/DD disk are when they are formated at HDs.