Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsc!dalka
From: dalka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (kenneth.j.dalka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD floppies
Message-ID: <14184@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 14:28:24 GMT
References: <3891@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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>>Do not use HD floppies in a normal Amiga floppy drive.  The HD disks are
>>*different*---different magnetic properties.  They will work---to a point.
>>Your data isn't worth it, and the DD are cheaper anyway.

I have a friend who has a messydos machine. He buys low density 3 1/2
floppies and drills holes in them for use with his machine. He says
he has to buy "good quality" disks rather than the $.40 ones which
he says he spends about $.85 per disk in lots of 100. Still a LOT
cheaper than using the high density. I've also heard that many disk
makers only make one kind of disk. They just certify a certain portion
for the higher dendity.
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					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)
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