Re: DSDD vs HD disks

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (greg berigan)]

snelson@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:

>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 to
cover the extra notch when you format them to 800K so you won't have to
do so later.  Masking tape works fine, although I prefer to use 5.25"
disk write-protect tabs on mine.

>  --Steven Nelson               steven-nelson@uiowa.edu

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gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)

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