Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!wlcrjs!rlk From: rlk@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: using both side of disks Message-ID: <749@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 02:45:53 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.749 Posted: Wed Jul 17 02:45:53 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 20:26:32 EDT References: <11474@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1631@ecsvax.UUCP> <1921@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: rlk@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 25 Keywords: making flippies out of floppies Summary: [] I don't know if there is any truth to "they're not made to run backward"; they seem to be preety even in that regard to me. What I don't want is the dust/dirt/whatever that collects on the inner sleeve being spread back over the disk/head and eating a groove thru the media. Take a look at the back side of a diskette that has seen heavy use in a single sided drive and tell me if you want that groove occupying legit data areas. If you need both sides, get double sided drives, -- unless you don't put any value on your work/time. Richard Klappal UUCP: ..!ihnp4!wlcrjs!uklpl!rlk | "Money is truthful. If a man MCIMail: rklappal | speaks of his honor, make him Compuserve: 74106,1021 | pay cash." USPS: 1 S 299 Danby Street | Villa Park IL 60181 | Lazarus Long TEL: (312) 620-4988 | (aka R. Heinlein) -------------------------------------------------------------------------