Re: SS disks

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From: Tainter
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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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
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Subject: Re: SS disks
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Date: 26 Apr 88 12:40:46 GMT
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