Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: using both side of disks Message-ID: <1272@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 15:09:07 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1272 Posted: Thu Jul 11 15:09:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:32:50 EDT References: <11475@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 24 In article <11475@brl-tgr.ARPA> brown@CMU-CS-K.ARPA (Andy Brown) writes: > >Most floppy disks are manufactured with a magnetic coating on *both* >sides. The disks are then tested to make sure that there are no >defects which would make them unsuitable for data storage. If one >side of a disk is bad, then it is usually ceritfied as a single-sided >disk, if both sides are good, then it is certified as a double-sided >disk. When you buy blank disks, it will always say on the box whether >the disks are single or double sided. Therefore, most single-sided >disks have *known* defects on the uncertified side (you can tell which >side is the correct side because it has the label on it). > If this is really the way it works, why is the "correct" side of the disks I buy *always* on the same side, i.e. the "wrong" side has the seams? Or can they be tested before putting them in the envelope? Tune in next week for the answer to this and other pressing world problems... -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."