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Article #32154Re: SS disks
From: Tainter
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1988 12:40
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1988 12:40
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In article <167@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: > 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. Actually, PC-DOS will recognize them but it will not format them for you. I transfered between my folks PS/2 and my Atari with an SS drive without problem one. --j.a.tainter
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SS disks Message-ID: <5259@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Apr 88 12:40:46 GMT References: <184chad@byuvax.bitnet> <167@obie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 8