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From: bees@infoswx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: SSDD disk = DSDD disk !
Message-ID: <45100012@infoswx>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 20:00:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 20:00:00 1985
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Nf-From: infoswx.UUCP!bees    Nov  4 19:00:00 1985


I was curious as to what my Amiga would do with a single sided disk, so
I borrowed an empty Macintosh disk from a co-worker.  I took it home and
plugged it into my second drive.  "info" said it was unreadable, as I
expected.  To find out whether my Amiga knew it was a smaller disk, I
ran:
	diskcopy fron df0: to df1: name "Copy Test"
as a test.

It worked!!!  "info" reported that it was an 880K disk 85% full!
Indeed when I did a:
	cd df1: 
	dir opt a
dir was able to access everything on the disk!

Hmmmm.... well the disk itself says:

		maxell
		micro floppy disk
		MF1-DD
		- Single Sided
		- Double Density
		- Double Track 135 TPI

Are all SSDDs the same as DSDDs excepting the label, or is this just a
feature of maxell?  One way or the other, are SSDDs normally cheaper or
does anyone know of a good outlet for cheap disks?  I have to believe
that somewhere I can get a box for less than the ~$50 the local dealer
sells them for.

BTW, I compiled hello.c using the Lattice make, and it took 2 minutes
49 seconds.  That's not too bad, considering the program load time for
the 2 pass compiler and 2 pass linker.

Ray Davis