Re: Re: DS/DD ST drive

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From: Dave J. Burris
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1985 14:00

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> Well the bad news is that you cannot currently make a bootable? DSDD
> diskette. You are stuck with using your SSDD drive as drive A, and the 
> big guy as drive B. Conflicting rumours abound as to Atari's intention
> to remedy this situation, but the best theory is that it won't be fixed
> until all of their supply of SS drives are exhausted. (Also hard drives
> won't be available until they figure that everyone went for a DS drive.)
> 

Sorry, but you CAN use the double sided drive as drive A. The only restriction
is that your boot disk must be formatted single sided.

-- 
Dave Burris
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Rockwell Switching Systems, Downers Grove, Il.

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Subject: Re: Re: DS/DD ST drive
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