Date   : Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:29:31 -0000
From   : jason.watton@... (Jason Watton)
Subject: DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to work?

> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> Ok. It's just that I get people shouting at me saying that it is
> not possible to do things I've been doing for 8, 16, 24 ,
> whatever, years and it sometimes rubs off.

For this very reason, Jonathan, you must *not* state:

> Another matter to know is that very few PC disk controllers can
> actually do single density encoding. The vast majority only
> understand MFM and many PCs have crippled BIOSes that only allows
> reading and writing of 512-byte sectors.

as *fact*:

(a) The first statement (IMHO) is *false*, although 'very few' is vague.
(b) The second statement (IMHO) is *false*, although 'many' is vague.

*Please*, I'm begging you, don't perpetuate this myth. You are putting 
people off trying because of the force of your conviction.