DD disks and HD drives (was: Where can I find...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jun 2000

Well you left out all the caveats.

I do it all the time, no problem.  Key thing is while the drives
are HD capable (TEAC FD55GFV) I happen to have them
jumpered as required to properly run DD mode.  In this
mode they are plain DD, DS 96 TP! drives.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: R. D. Davis &lt;rdd(a)smart.net&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: DD disks and HD drives (was: Where can I find...)

...
 On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
> DD drives or that DD disks can be used in HD drives _as HD disks_ (most
...
 > HD drives can also handle DD disks, but only to
store the amount of data
...
   that you'd
get from a DD drive anyway). 
One word of caution regarding the use of DD disks in HD drives: it's
been my experience that which this may appear to work, problems
sometimes arise when one attempts to read the data written in a DD disk
by an HD drive.  It's only reliable as long as you're using the same
drive; on quite a few occasions over the years I've had this happen when
attempting this.  So, it's safest to write to DD disks with DD drives,
although this should be readable by any HD drive.

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