Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Patrick Schaefer <pa.schaefer@fz-juelich.de> writes:
>Supertimer wrote:
>> It was a quality control issue.  SS/SD, SS/DD, and DS/DD
>> all use the same magnetic coating.  The difference is that
>> they either test a single side or both sides and did density
>> testing to see how much the disks can hold.

>Okay, but some single-sided disk drives use the lower side of the disk
>(opposite to the label) to store the data, other drives used the upper
>side. If single-sided means that only one side has been tested, which?

Has anyone listed drives that use opposite sides as their single side?

The only other reason for rating a disk single sided when it has magnetic
media on both sides and different drives use different sides could be
print-through. Thinner media perhaps? This would mean you could use one
side and it does not matter which side it is.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia