3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed May 21 18:03:05 2003

> 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.

Not if you value your data (and I do -- what's the point in writing
something to disk if you don't intend to read it back again?).

The coercivity of the media _is_ different between the DD and HD 3.5"
disks. Not very different, but different enough that you _will_ have
reliabilty problems.

-tony
Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 18:03:05 BST