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Re: Platinum 5.25" drive problem

Subject: Re: Platinum 5.25" drive problem
From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
Date: 27 Jun 2001 22:39:52 GMT
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George Rentovich wrote:

<snip>
>Clamping could be a
>problem also. This would be with using  disks with no center hub (IBM HD

If he's using HD disks in an Apple 5.25" drive, he has bigger problems than
clamping!  HD disks cannot be reliably written to by Apple drives--they don't
have enough write current.  (Reading would probably be fine, assuming that
they can be written on a suitable drive.)

Note, they may _appear_ to format and work for a while, but they will
not be reliable over any period of time, if at all.

-michael

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