21 Jan
1999
21 Jan
'99
2:07 a.m.
On 21 Jan 99 at 6:52, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
::Last I checked my local Mac shop still sold DD 3.5
inch disks. Also, I
::*think*
::that unlike 5.25 inch disks it's safe to use 3.5 inch HD disks on DD drives.
::It DOES tend to confuse drives that do know what to do with HD, but if you're
::only doing DD it works, I think.
Unfortunately, it won't. Some later mechanisms might handle them okay, but
older drives and mechs don't have the write signal strength to properly
operate with denser media. Upshot is, they write unreliably. I have this
problem with my 1581 disk drive.
--
This is also true with the Atari STs as I found out to my dismay 4-5 years ago
when I lost some valuable data I thought I had backed up, even tho it had
seemingly written OK to the disks. I have a stash of 720s that I got at a
sell-off price from a surplus electronics store. Altho you can still get them
the local suppliers charge more for them than the HD ones.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com