Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!land From: land@hpccc.HP.COM (David M. Land) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" disk drives and diskettes Message-ID: <5060038@hpccc.HP.COM> Date: 8 Dec 88 21:58:39 GMT References: <10208@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: HP Corporate Computing Center Lines: 13 I've drilled a couple of discs, originally SINGLE-SIDED (256K) discs for an HP 150, and I'm getting about 90% use from them -- in other words, on a 1.44 M floppy, about 1.3 M of usable space. And that's on a used, single-sided disc. HOWEVER: I only use such discs for files I can afford to lose. ----- What use have I for disclaimers? Nobody listens to me anyway. But if I had one, it would say that I speak only for myself. Mostly TO myself, but what the heck...