[Coco] 5 1/4" drive

[Christian Lesage]

Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Only if you can set it to rotate at 300 RPM. Normally, those 1.2MB 5.25"
>> drives spin at 360 RPM and have a 300 kbps data rate,
>>     
> No, its 500 kilobaud.
>   


It's 500kbps when operating in high density, and 300kbps in 
double-density mode. As the CoCo operates in double density, the 500kbps 
rate is irrelevant.

See the following page written by Dave Dunfield:

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img41867/speed300.htm