Re: Good source for "new" 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks?

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-10ib-this>]

  To: winston19842005
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:30:41 -0400, winston19842005 wrote:

> On 9/18/07 7:53 AM, in article
> zOKdne9oWf62IXLbnZ2dnUVZ_uiknZ2d@giganews.com, "Steven Hirsch"
> <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> winston19842005 wrote:
>>> 
>>>> WalMart and other office supply stores sell *high density* disks.
>>>> Though you can use such disks in a pinch (I'm told), what I'm looking
>>>> for is 800k double-density disks.
>>> 
>>> Well, we Tiers use them all the time in our 720k drives, just tape over the
>>> density hole.
>> 
>> You must enjoy data loss, then.  The heads on low density drives cannot
>> generate a field sufficient to fully saturate domains on the media.  Don't bet
>> the farm on being able to read those disks back after a few years.
> 
> Sorry, you are confusing HD 5.25" with 3.5" HD (here we go again, <sigh>!).
> Besides, in my case I AM using an HD 3.5" drive, just in LD mode...

With Apple II 3.5" drives, it depends on the drive whether you can
successfully use HD 3.5" disks or not.

I personally have had a drive that could write to HD 3.5" disks and was
able to read them back for a while but I copied all that data over to DD
disks as soon as I got more so I don't think I ever had data on a HD
disk for more than six months or so.  I also had an Apple 3.5 Drive that
simply refuses to format or write to an HD disk.

I have read here on comp.sys.apple2 about at least one person who was
able to write to an HD disk and was able to read from it for some time
but after a while he could no longer read the disk.
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