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From: djb@riccb.UUCP (Dave J. Burris )
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: ST double-sided drive experience
Message-ID: <545@riccb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 16:20:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 16:20:06 1985
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Organization: Rockwell Telecommunications, Downers Grove,Il.
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> It appears that the Atari ST double sided drives (holding 720K bytes,
> formatted) have just become available to local dealers. Has anyone
> used them? Does the ST refer to each side as a different disk ID?
> 
>      /Don Peters, Digital, 617-689-1242/
> 
>         ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pulman!peters

The disk is accessed as any other disk except with more storage. One catch
though is that disks formatted double-sided cannot be read by a single
sided drive.

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Dave Burris
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Rockwell Switching Systems, Downers Grove, Il.