Re: 5 1/4 floppies

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

It was Tue, 4 Mar 1997 12:07:43 -0600.  I was reading instead of working.  And 
Doug Browning  <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca> said:

>Hmmm... So, how do you know what kind you have?

>On 3 Mar 1997, Matthew Pearce wrote:

>> Doug Browning (vgt507@freenet.mb.ca) wrote:

>> : They were probably mislabelled hd disks in dd boxes. Check the drive hole 
>> : in the center of the disk. A dd disk has a reinforcing ring attached 
>> : while the hd does not.
 
>> Not necessarily true. I have seen both DD and HD 5 1/4" disks with and 
>> without reinforcing rings.

No easy way to tell.  The hub ring *usually* is an indicator, but I've seen 
cheap DSDD disks without 'em and expensive DSHD disks with 'em.

Are they a certain brand, or just generic?
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