Re: Using both sides of DS DD disks

[Simon Williams <DONTemail@luddite.ca>]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:49:04 GMT Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com> wrote:

> 
> In article <Q8idnZ5QxY6KNlygXTWc2Q@comcast.com>, RED
> <redodd@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Double sided drives write to both sides with no problems. Some people say
> > that because the disk spins in the opposite direction when you flip it, dust
> > and dirt that was caught by the internal lining of the disk jacket can cause
> > harm to the disk.  I've used flippies for eons and never had any problems.
> 
> You know, I only ever had one problem with flipping a disk over and it
> was weirdly consistent. Ultima III. The program itself was on one side
> of the disk and the other side was a data store that contained all the
> structures that would be modified over the course of the game. So the
> first thing you had to do was copy that second side onto a writeable
> disk. I had three consecutive copies of Ultima 3 fail to launch _after_
> I made that copy, even though all worked fine before.
> 

I've had a similar problem with half a dozen copies of Multiscribe...
in each case after trying to copy (using C2+ 7) the original no longer
functions. Side one boots as expected, but after flipping the disk at
the appropriate time, the program keeps asking for side 2...

Oh well...

Am I correct in assuming that DSDD disks were originally intended to be
used on one side or the other (depending on your computer model) rather
than both???  

SW