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In article <1992Dec8.145201.61800@cc.usu.edu> slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
> In article <wiegand.723248610@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert  
Wiegand) writes:
> > dollbes@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
> > 
> >>Are bhigh density and double density essentially the same? Is it  
really
> >>possible to punch and convert one to the other?
> > 
> > Yes its possible, but no its not a good idea.
> > The disks are not the same.
> > 
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> > Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
> > motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net            uunet!motcid!wiegand
> > Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
> 
> 
> At our local comp. lab, they had one of those punch machines to convert  
DD to
> HD... Alas, I had a significantly larger failure rate among the punched  
disks
> than the normal DD _or_ HD diskettes.  Punching not recommended, no  
matter what
> the gurus say! :-)
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> 

I'd also like to know about programs such as FDformat which allow you 
to format for 2 mbs on a hd disk.  Are they safe and reliable?
I have a friend who used to always fdformat(2meg) his disks and use the
double hole punch routine.  His 1.44 meg drive is screwed now and doesn't
copy reliably.  I think it is because of his abuse of the above methods.



anyways i don't do either.

spader@cs.mcgill.ca