5.25 diskettes for 1571

[alvaro262]

Hello Fiends!

I have recently bought some 5.25 diskettes, but when I tried to use them, the 1571 of my C128D failed and printed "bad disk error". I saw those disks are high density. My question is if the commodore floppy disk drives can use this kind of diskettes. I do not know where I can get the standard "double density".
Thank you for your help !!

[RobertB]

     No, the 1571 cannot use a high-density 5.25" disk.  Double-density, double-sided disks are available from several sources, like the Athana Corp. in Los Angeles.  http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html

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[Andrew Wiskow]

Athana is your best bet for new, high quality DSDD floppy disks. Alternatively, you can always find them for sale on eBay, but as with everything on eBay, the quality of what you'll get is kind of hit and miss.

[RobertB]

Athana is your best bet for new, high quality DSDD floppy disks.

Yes, for the re-release of the rare C64 game, Super Pogo Stick, at the July 23-24 CommVEx this year, I was thinking of purchasing 50 colored disks from Athana.  BTW, for the CommVEx 2010 release of Berzerk 1.1, the game came on NIB, baby blue disks (which we so happened to have in storage).

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[BigDumbDinosaur]

Also, DSQD disks will work and actually may be a bit more reliable.  Dunno if there's any source for them though.

[RobertB]

Also, DSQD disks will work and actually may be a bit more reliable.  Dunno if there's any source for them though.

Athana International to the rescue again.  Here is an e-mail I received from them a few hours ago --

          Thank you for your inquiry about 5.25"  Quad Density Disks (DS/QD). We
          have this product available. The price is  $32.50 EA. BX/10 plus shipping.
          We accept Visa, MasterCard & American Express. If you have any questions,
          please let us know. We will be glad to help.

     http://www.athana.com/

               They responded very quickly,
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               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
               Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
               http://www.sccaners.org

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Also, DSQD disks will work and actually may be a bit more reliable.  Dunno if there's any source for them though.

     Athana International to the rescue again.  Here is an e-mail I received from them a few hours ago --

          Thank you for your inquiry about 5.25"  Quad Density Disks (DS/QD). We
          have this product available. The price is  $32.50 EA. BX/10 plus shipping.
          We accept Visa, MasterCard & American Express. If you have any questions,
          please let us know. We will be glad to help.

     http://www.athana.com/

               They responded very quickly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug
               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
               Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
               http://www.sccaners.org

That's about the price I was paying for them back when I had dual SFD-1001s hooked up to my C-128.  I used BASF ones and never had any trouble.  About one out of ten DSDD disks would fail to format on the SFD drives.  That was never a problem with DSQD disks.

[airship]

Man, I loved my SFD-1001 back in the day! I could get an entire issue's worth of screen snapshots and text files on a single disk.