[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

[Dan Olson]

To be more clear, when talking about *drives* not formats, single and 
double density don't come into play.  "Quad" density was another way of 
saying 80 track and not really a different density at all.

 	Dan


On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 coco at yourdvd.net wrote:

> Yes there was SSSD (about 85k or so), SSDD 180k, dsdd 360k, DSQD (quad
> density) 720k (you could use these to read 360k disks by double
> stepping, but writing to a disk formatted on a dsdd drive would ruin
> it) and finally DSHD 1.2m.  -r
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
>> From: Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>
>> Date: Thu, April 12, 2007 2:14 pm
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>
>> Was there ever a 720K 5.25 floppy drive? I rember the sizes being 360K
>> and 1.2M. The 3.5 floppies were 720K and 1.4M. I don't remember how to
>> tell the difference between a 360K and 1.2M drive though
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:39:49PM -0700, coco at yourdvd.net wrote:
>>> actually, i think the floppy is still one of the devices that the os
>>> expects to be set in the bios. on my xp, it doesn't matter if i've got
>>> a 360k, 720k or 1.2m 5.25 hooked up - it just shows floppy 5.25" in
>>> control panel.
>>>
>>> anyway, you could try hooking them to a coco - it's either going to
>> work
>>> or it won't. =r
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
>>>> From: "mike delyea"
>>>> Date: Thu, April 12, 2007 1:24 pm
>>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>>>>
>>>> You could always hook them up to a PC and see if it autodetects
>> it.  IBMs
>>>> are usually pretty good at that.
>>>>
>>>> On 4/12/07, Gene Heskett  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday 12 April 2007, John T Chasteen wrote:
>>>>>> Sorry for that.  The drives are FD5481
>>>>>
>>>>> Got a brand name?  That doesn't google.
>>>>>
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