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Started by Don Peters, APO-1/F8, 289-1242
Thu, 26 Sep 1985 16:35
ST double-sided drive experience
Author: Don Peters, APO-1/F8, 289-1242
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1985 16:35
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1985 16:35
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It appears that the Atari ST double sided drives (holding 720K bytes,
formatted) have just become available to local dealers. Has anyone
used them? Does the ST refer to each side as a different disk ID?
/Don Peters, Digital, 617-689-1242/
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Re: ST double-sided drive experience
Author: Dave J. Burris
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1985 20:20
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1985 20:20
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> It appears that the Atari ST double sided drives (holding 720K bytes, > formatted) have just become available to local dealers. Has anyone > used them? Does the ST refer to each side as a different disk ID? > > /Don Peters, Digital, 617-689-1242/ > > ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pulman!peters The disk is accessed as any other disk except with more storage. One catch though is that disks formatted double-sided cannot be read by a single sided drive. -- Dave Burris ..!ihnp4!ihopa!riccb!djb Rockwell Switching Systems, Downers Grove, Il.
Re: ST double-sided drive experience
Author: Bill Henneman
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1985 15:34
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1985 15:34
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I've had a DS drive for 3 weeks (as a pallative, while waiting for the #$%#$% hard disk). No, the sides are not referred to as seperate entities. The only glitch I've noticed is that SS disks can't be copied onto DS disks using the desktop copy thing. No other surprises I've encountered.
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