21 May
2003
21 May
'03
12:47 a.m.
At 11:11 PM 5/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
This has been my experience with PCs as well. I might be wrong it seems
like the older disks and PCs worked better but the newer ones seldom work.
Joe
I thought you
could use 3.5" HD/DD disks in a DS/DD drive just fine. At
worst a piece of tape over the "wrong" hole if necessary.
At least with the Mac, this isn't a good idea for long term use. It will
sometimes format the disk as DD if you tape over the HD sense hole, but
even if it does, you can pretty much count on the disk failing in a very
short period of time. I've never had a disk last more than a few
read/write sessions. After that, errors start occuring and you can't read
or write to it any more.
In many of the cases, the disk is usually hosed after this and won't take
a format back to HD anymore.