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Article #14290Re: DS HD floppies
From: Nur Iskandar Taib
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 23:47
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 23:47
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>In recent years HD floppies almost never have a hub ring, will DD >always do. In the past this was not true, so it's certainly possible >to find a DD disk without a hub ring. As far as a I know, no drive I remember someone selling a gizmo for putting on hub rings years ago. Incidentally, why don't HD diskettes have hub rings? You'll also notice that HD floppies rotate all the time, DD stop spinning between reads or writes (for 5 1/4s, that is). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: DS HD floppies Message-ID: <1991Jun18.234702.9028@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <chris.3717@genly.UUCP> <1991Jun18.050747.26870@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <13217@uwm.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 23:47:02 GMT Lines: 17