Re: Floppy disks, HD DD, 1.44MB, 720k, 800k

[Bettykate <Bettykate@dosius.com>]

Matthew S. Carpenter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few months ago a friend of mine gave me links to a couple websites 
> were I could buy 3.5 DS/DD floppy disks by the 100 pack.  Now for the 
> life of me I can't figure out what I did with those links so I've been 
> searching on google.
>
> Now I keep finding results just like this one: 
> <http://asp.issidata.com/comppage.asp?storeID=WI&gonow=12042>
>
> "1.44 MB, Double Sided, Double Density"
>
> Huh?  But arent DS/DD disks are supposed to format to 720k under MS-DOS? 
>   I could swear last I checked that was the case.
>
> I e-mailed one of these stores and they told me the following:
> ---
> that single sided floppies format to 720K
>
> that double density 3.5 floppies format to 1.44MB
>
> and that high density 3.5 floppies format to 2.0MB

SSDD = 360K
DSDD = 720K
DSHD = 1.4 MB
DSED = 2.8 MB

-uso.