On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:58:39AM +0100, Paul Case wrote:
> My wife and I are throwing out an old Amiga 500, and I've found several
> dozen 720KB floppies (which I can quite happily put to use), but I've
> also found about 3 times as many disks labelled as single-sided (these
> are 3.5" floppies, so that was surprising by itself). The question is, I
> formatted one of those single-sided floppies on my Windows computer, and
> neither Windows or Scandisk complained about any read/write errors... so
> is it actually possible to use those floppies on my PC? And if so, what
> capacity should I format them as? (They're labelled as having a 500KB
> capacity, and they have 135 TPI).
Most Floppies have been made double sided, but were only tested single
sided in those days. It's okay to use them double sided.
I remember, when I had a single sided 5''25 floppy drive, I always made
a hole at the other side of the floppies and turned them around to use
the other side of the disk. ;-)
--
Tschuess
Andreas
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