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Article #32127Re: SS disks
From: Barnacle Wes
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1988 06:50
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1988 06:50
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In article <184chad@byuvax.bitnet>, chad@byuvax.bitnet writes:
% Question: Is it true that MACs use the top of the disk while Atari/IBM
% use the undersides? If that is true, then all SSDD disks are *certified*
% DSDD disks as the manufacturers wouldn't know which computer is going
% to be used and therefore which side to certify...
% That is what I have heard. If it is true, then it is the biggest scam
% around.
Nope. The single-sided 3.5" disk drives write on the top. The O.S.
has nothing to do with this. A 3.5" SS disk drive is undefined in the
MS-DOS world, by the way - MS-DOS only recognizes 720K and 1.44M 3.5"
disks.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SS disks Message-ID: <167@obie.UUCP> Date: 24 Apr 88 06:50:20 GMT References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet> Organization: the Well of Souls Lines: 16 Summary: Nope, not true