From: Michael Huth (enigma_at_mail.lipsia.de)
Date: 2005-11-01 23:33:58
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Steppe wrote:
| I think you're trying to find out if your disks are DD or HD,
| right? I think that has nothing to do with the terms hard or soft
| sectored.
Yes, I believed before that HDs are always hard sectored. Well thats
wrong.
In fact I have HD and DD - both soft sectored - and want to find out
which disk is what density.
| But to find out if your disks are DD or HD, do this: Just format
| one, copy some files onto them (in your 1541), then load the files
| a couple of times. From what I experienced the chances of loading a
| file on a HD disk are miniscule. So, if everything loads fine they
| should be DD, if you get load errors, they're HD. That's not a
| scientific method, beware, just a quick'n'dirty way to test it.
My experience with this method is that it can take upto weeks until
first read errors occur.
Ciao...
...Micha
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