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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: DS HD floppies
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 23:47:02 GMT
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>In recent years HD floppies almost never have a hub ring, will DD
>always do.  In the past this was not true, so it's certainly possible
>to find a DD disk without a hub ring.  As far as a I know, no drive

I remember someone selling a gizmo for putting
on hub rings years ago.

Incidentally, why don't HD diskettes have hub 
rings? You'll also notice that HD floppies 
rotate all the time, DD stop spinning between 
reads or writes (for 5 1/4s, that is).
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