Date   : Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:36:40 +0100
From   : Michael McConnell <soruk@...>
Subject: Re: Banana Discs was: Flippy Discs

Rob wrote:
> I think they've been mentioned, but not shown.
> 
> Anyway, here's a pic of a banana disc.  I have a few, but as I always 
> had double sided drives, I never used them in flip mode..
> 
> http://www.irrelevant.com/cc/sleeves/banana.jpg (44Kb)

It's now coming back to me (eeeeek!)

It was these Banana discs which I somehow managed to get 4 sides' worth 
of storage on.  I can only assume it was some slight (1/2 of an 80-track 
  track width) difference in alignment between the heads on the two 
sides, causing the tracks to interleave, so flipping the disc and 
reformatting meant not only did I not lose any data, but got 800K in DFS 
mode, and 1280K in ADFS L format... as if the two ways up were totally 
independent of one another.

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