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In article <1992Dec11.204253.26900@cs.mcgill.ca> spader@statler.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE) writes:
>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.

Given that the Amiga's standard high-density format is somewhere near
the 1.72 megs that FDFORMAT can put on a disk, I'd think that
FDFORMAT is safe--as long as you use it with REAL high-density disks.

I tried punching a DD disk to HD once...didn't work.  Save yourself
the aggravation of lost data--don't punch disks.  The only time it's
safe to punch disks is when you're working with single-sided 5.25"
drives (as with an Apple II)...you can punch another notch to use the
other side of those disks without problem (I've been doing that for
over seven years and have never lost a disk).

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