FYI: MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Thu Jan 21 09:07:49 1999

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_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 09:07:49 GMT