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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD floppies
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Date: 5 Mar 90 22:45:14 GMT
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In <90065.140254JAM160@psuvm.psu.edu>, JAM160@psuvm.psu.edu (James MacKenzie) writes:
>
>Sorry, Tom, but there is NO difference in the magnetic media of HD and DD
>3-1/2" disks...in fact, you can take a DD 3-1/2" disk and put a hole in
>it where the extra one is on a HD, and it will work.

Going that direction is a little more reliable than going the other direction.

Tell you what. You buy a HD floppy diskette. Format it on your Amiga. put your
normal boot stuff on it.  Use it if it holds the data at all.  Tell me how long
it goes before you have a munged, unusable boot disk.  Tell me why.

-larry

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