Changes

There is not much to be said about these 3 inch discs other than there is only one type but produced by a number of different manufacturers -- some good quality, many bad quality. I have identified what the years have shown me to be good quality, long lasting discs but beware do not judge the discs you might be offered by their paper labels as many cheap copies from suspect makers have appear in the market place, look at the discs themselves. '''The Good'''

*[[Media:CF2DD Blue.jpg|Genuine Amsoft (Amstrad) 3" CF-2DD]]: This type of disc was originally supplied for the double head 720K drives at an enhanced price, then Amstrad admitted that these discs were no different to their other offering (see the first disc).

*[[Media:BLANK5.JPG|Dixions Store supplied]]: Found to be unreliable and not to servive the rigours of time -- to be avoided at all costs!*Maker Unknown - [[Media:BLANK6.JPG|Blank6 ]] & [[Media:Blank11.jpg|Blank11]]: These discs are found to be unreliable and do not last the rigours of time -- to be avoided at all costs.*[[Media:Blank7.jpg|Copy (or poor quality) Amsoft]]: These discs normally come with an Amsoft label and I am lead to believe that they are cheap copies -- to be aviod at all costs. These discs tend to become corrupt and or fall to pieces.*[[Media:BLANK8.JPG|Wiz Disc]]: Origin of manufacture is unknown but a test of six discs from the same batch revealled that most would not format to 720K but were fine at 180K -- to be avioded at all costs.*[[Media:BLANK9.JPG|Diskxpress]]: Supplied by Diskxpress -- to be avioded at all costs. '''And the should know better''' *[[Media:Blank10.jpg|A look-a-like Maxell 3]]: Poor quality, jams in drive. Note no serial number on side 'B' unlike the Maxell disc it is trying to copy!  My comments - Jonathanen: When John King has told me about CF-2DD discs for the first time after I've purchased one of them (with the [[Media:CF2DD Blue.jpg|Blue label]]), I thought he was making it up, until when I got home and decided to tested out his own theory, it turns out that he is right along and it works perfectly. Then, I've tried the reverse order using any standard CF-2 discs as CF-2DD discs, and it turns out that I'm right as well, as it works perfectly - check out my [http://www.jonathanen.com/pages/Help/badsector.html "Re-using 3 Inch Floppy Discs with Bad Sectors"] link to see what I mean.