#Lowcost 1.76 Meg Disks
11-Jul-94 02:55:52
Sb: #155893-#Lowcost 1.76 Meg Disks
Fm: Brian Bartlett 72037,570
To: Hilary Szymanowski 70035,510
Hilary,
then you have been very, very lucky. During the production process a
sample of diskettes is drawn from a particular batch and if the disks in
the sample drawn pass the tests to satisfy the DS/HD standard, the batch
is shipped as such. If they fail, but pass as DS/DD, they are certified
as such and so shipped.
Given such a regimen, it should be no suprise that you can convert many
disks to DS/HD by using a nibble-notch type device. However, unless you
rigorously test these diskettes, you will inevitably run into the disk
that actually cause the batch to fail in the first place.
Given the small differential in prices today between the two types of
diskettes, I'm not willing to take the chance. Whether you do or not is
up to you. Recommending that others take the same risk is, in my view,
questionable at best.
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