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Article #16838Re: Using single-sided disks double-sided.
From: Tom Lane
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1987 18:27
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1987 18:27
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>Is there anything wrong with formatting disks labeled as single-sided as >double-sided? This seems to come up every 3 months on this newsgroup. The official line is, as you say, that the back side of a SS disk is not tested. It might be OK, then again, it might not. In this situation about all you have to go on is anecdotal evidence, so here's my $0.02 worth: I did it ONCE and got BURNT. This was three or so years ago when DS 3.5" drives were first becoming available. The disks in question were Hewlett-Packard disks, which are made for HP by Sony; Sony has the reputation of being the best brand of disk (see postings in this group a couple of months back concerning independent tests). So it wasn't a case of cheap off-brand disks. It may be that these days SS disks are more likely to be good on the back side. Personally, I wouldn't trust my data to the back of a SS disk. The real bottom line is, as always, how much is that data worth to you? tom lane ----- ARPA: lane@ZOG.CS.CMU.EDU UUCP: ...!seismo!zog.cs.cmu.edu!lane BITNET: lane%zog.cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!udel!rochester!pt!zog.cs.cmu.edu!tgl From: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Using single-sided disks double-sided. Message-ID: <1029@zog.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 14:27:19 EDT Article-I.D.: zog.1029 Posted: Sun Jun 7 14:27:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 08:40:50 EDT References: <5352@ut-ngp.UUCP> Reply-To: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) Distribution: world Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 24