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I have personal experience of using DSDD disks to transfer many files from a HD system to a DD system. Deleting / overwriting files in the HD system led to read errors on the DD end. A good workaround was to format the disk in the DD system after each transfer, before writing fresh data onto the blank disk in the HD system.

Kaz
– Kaz

2020-04-07 12:42:56 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 12:42
@Kaz with 3.5” floppies? I’ve had problems doing that with 5.25” floppies, but not so much with 3.5” floppies (which of course only means I haven’t run into troublesome situations).

Stephen Kitt
– Stephen Kitt

2020-04-07 12:51:47 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 12:51
Yes, 3.5" floppies, transferring files from a PC to an Acorn Archimedes (DOS 720k format).

Kaz
– Kaz

2020-04-07 13:03:13 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 13:03

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