info-mac@uw-beaver (12/25/84)
From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@washington.arpa> Recent messages have indicated that double sided disk external disk drives will become available for the Macintosh soon. As a relative novice to this personal computer stuff, I wonder if someone could answer a couple of probably basic questions. Answers specifically for this product, which I assume is the Haba HabaDisk, would also be useful. What compatibility exists between single sided and double sided drives and media? I assume you can use new double sided media in a single sided drive and it gets treated the same as single sided media and written in a single sided fashion. However, what happens if you use single sided media in a double sided drive? Is it possible to write a disk compatible with the single sided drive using the double sided drive? Is it possible to read a disk written with a single sided drive using the double sided drive? Thanks. --Rick -------