Re: Is it a hard or soft sectored disk?

silverdr_at_inet.com.pl
Date: 2005-11-02 00:38:18

On 2005-11-01, at 23:09, Rainer Buchty wrote:

>> No, this is only true for 3,5" disks.
>
> So how did 5.25" drives distinguish between HD and DD?

AFAIR It didn't/doesn't.

>
> I could have sworn, that the 5.25" HD disks hat an additional notch on
> the "bottom" end... (And looks like I'm not the only one -- see  
> "General
> Questions" on http://www.ucalgary.ca/infoserve/Vol2.2/microlab.html)

Quite possibly they're wrong but just to be on the safe side, I'll  
double check that in the morning.

-- 
Younger UNIX geek view of sex:
# unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; more; more; yes;  
umount ; sleep
Older UNIX geek view of sex:
# gawk; talk; nice; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; strip; touch;  
gasp; finger; gasp; mount; gasp; fsck; gasp; umount; make clean; make  
mrproper; sleep



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