C64 and making doublesided floppies

On Saturday 09 September 2006 03:42 am, Zane H. Healy wrote: I knew of folks that did this all the time. What I remember reading about the practice back when was that some folks thought it not to be a good idea because they said that the liner of the floppy's package was supposed to "sweep up" any loose particles of oxide or any other contaminants and that reversing the direction of rotation would cut all of this stuff loose. My one machine which uses single-sided drives is my Osborne Executive, and I never did that bit myself. One time a guy sent me some software on a floppy where he had done that and I was unable to load all of the info on the second side, and kept running into errors. Whether this was due to the above or there was too much wear on the disk or it was something else I couldn't really say. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin