Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site infoswx Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!topaz!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!infoswx!bees 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 Article-I.D.: infoswx.45100012 Posted: Mon Nov 4 20:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 03:31:41 EST Lines: 35 Nf-ID: #N:infoswx:45100012:000:1132 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