Re: DSDD vs HD disks

[lr0925f90@auvax1.adelphi.edu]

 >
 >>I recently order 3.5 DS/DD disks from MEI (I even went for the
 >Mac-grade).
 >>They charged me acoordingly, but shipped HD disks instead.
 >
 >They may have gotten confused by the request for "Mac-grade" disks, and
 >figured you meant HD disks.  They may have charged you for HD disks.
 >But in my experience, DD disks break down.  I don't know how many I
 >have
 >
 >that have bad blocks that can't be bunched (like block 2).
 >
 >>The honest thing would be to return them, but I need some disks NOW!
 >Most
 >>of my drives could care less about the extra hole in the corner, so
 >should
 >>I just go ahead and use them, or will I have reliability problems in
 >>standard 3.5 drives.  I realize that I need to cover the left hole if
 >I use
 >>them in a HD drive as 800k disks.  Advice?
 >
 >Use them.  They work fine.  I've never had an HD disk go bad in a DD
 >drive (although I haven't used many).  They should pose no difficulties
 >except when you want to insert them in an HD drive.  It would be best
 
 >>  --Steven Nelson               steven-nelson@uiowa.edu
 
        Actually I have had probblems using them in a AE 3.5 drive.  For some
reason it will format and write to them once but then if I put them in latter
the finder, or the drive won't seem to reconize them and want to format the
disk.  They work fine in the apple 3.5 though.
 
Louis.