[Coco] Help floppy drive

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Thu Apr 12 17:31:24 EDT 2007


John T Chasteen wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I have two 5.25 in.  Floppy Drive and don't know
> 
> Weather it is a 360K or a 720K drive.

If you can get them hooked up to your CoCo, you could put a blank disk 
in and do a DSKINI, if the heads only move half way across the disk then 
it's an 80 track, if they move (almost) all the way then it's probably a 
  40 track.

Cheers.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

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