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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Error Message When using Disk Drive : "Disk Error : Bad Device ID"

2013-06-14 by jammie

they will work for a little while but because the feild generated by the dd system is week
and does not penetrate the hd metal tape properly you get errors
and they fail very quickly with lots of checksome errors
----- Original Message -----
From: Stakker
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:10 AM
Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Error Message When using Disk Drive : "Disk Error : Bad Device ID"

I used to use HD disks with my DD Commodore Amiga without issue? Would the drive be any different?

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forr� wrote:
>
> In DD drives only DD disks should be used without problems with data
> or even disk drive. HD disks with closed hole formatted to DD
> shouldn't be used.
>
> HD drives can read both DD and HD disks.
>
> Daniel Forro
>
>
> On 14 Jun, 2013, at 1:53 AM, STEPHEN PRATT wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe the SD sees all floppies as Single Density even if they
> > have the HD cutout on the floppy - so it shouldn't matter what you
> > use.
> >
>

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