Re: Platinum 5.25" drive problem

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> HD 3.5" diskettes are not so different in coercivity from DD 3.5"
> diskettes, and some drives can write them reliably some of the time.
> But since you don't know whether _now_ is one of those times,
> you would have to not care much about your data to use them instead
> of DD diskettes.
>
I found a whole box of used 3.5" DSDD diskettes at Goodwill once
for $2.50.  There was around a 100 diskettes in the box so I don't
have a shortage of GS diskettes.
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