ardsleytank
Experienced Member
An appropriately novice question, can you use SSDD floppys on a Model III?
Thanks.
Thanks.
??? How can you use a SS disk on both sides?Sure. SS or DS had little to do with the ability for a disk to be used on both sides, in practice. The bit to pay attention to is DD vs.HD.
Single or double sided single density will often work, but is not recommended.
??? How can you use a SS disk on both sides?
I was just thinking from the perspective of what one can find on eBay. DSDD 5.25" would be more common, more new old stock, and less likely to have been through the ringer. No need to specifically look for SSDD or SSSD.Why not? I wasn't aware that there was any substantive difference. The maximum number of flux transitions per linear unit is the same. It's the encoding that's different.
In actual practice, "single sided" floppy disks are actually fine to use as double-sided, because different systems with single-sided drives had the read/write head on either the top or bottom.
This is a myth... There is no single sided drive that used a top head instead of a bottom one. I have repaired dozens of models from the earliest Shugart, Mitsumi, Alps, Texas Peripherals, etc.... There are absolutely none. It would make no sense to have designed one that way.
In actual practice, "single sided" floppy disks are actually fine to use as double-sided, because different systems with single-sided drives had the read/write head on either the top or bottom.
This is a myth... There is no single sided drive that used a top head instead of a bottom one. I have repaired dozens of models from the earliest Shugart, Mitsumi, Alps, Texas Peripherals, etc.... There are absolutely none.
I guess you never used a DEC RX-50. I think there was at least one other single sided drive that wrote to the upper surface but I can't remember the model.
I guess you never used a DEC RX-50. I think there was at least one other single sided drive that wrote to the upper surface but I can't remember the model.