Re: Using both sides of DS DD disks

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <Q8idnZ5QxY6KNlygXTWc2Q@comcast.com>, RED
<redodd@comcast.net> wrote:

> Double sided drives write to both sides with no problems. Some people say
> that because the disk spins in the opposite direction when you flip it, dust
> and dirt that was caught by the internal lining of the disk jacket can cause
> harm to the disk.  I've used flippies for eons and never had any problems.

You know, I only ever had one problem with flipping a disk over and it
was weirdly consistent. Ultima III. The program itself was on one side
of the disk and the other side was a data store that contained all the
structures that would be modified over the course of the game. So the
first thing you had to do was copy that second side onto a writeable
disk. I had three consecutive copies of Ultima 3 fail to launch _after_
I made that copy, even though all worked fine before.