[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

[Dan Olson]

While these are probably collectors items, with many Teac 1.2M drives, you 
can jumper them to run at 300 RPM when in low density mode, as that's all 
the coco has, it will effectively be a 720k drive.  I did this on my TI99, 
worked great.... until I realized that I might just as well use a 3.5" 
drive at that point :)

 	Dan


On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Mark Marlette wrote:

> Frank,
>
> Teac made the FD-55Fx series. They were 5.25" 720k. RARE as heck today. I had 
> some about 5+years ago and sold them.....DUMB, DUMB, DUMB.....
>
> Mark
>
> Quoting Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.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" <mdelyea at gmail.com>
>>> > Date: Thu, April 12, 2007 1:24 pm
>>> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> >
>>> > 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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