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Re: SS disks

#32144
From: Rich Dankert
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1988 04:54
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>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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	Wrong. MS-DOS will work with 360K SS disks also. All one hase 
to do is change the information in the config.sys file and one can 
make MS-DOS work with SS drives, a 5 1/4 and a SS drive  or DS drive
and a SS drive  or any combination of the above. 

	One must remember that since your working with a SS drive (3 1/5)
that you may\will have to have some of the utilities on a seperate disk. 
I do tis, and place the most un-used programs on the second disk, therefore
aleveatng the gruesom problem of disk swappng.

rich.....
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From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SS disks
Message-ID: <613@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 04:54:11 GMT
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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