[Coco] Need new disk drive...

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Chuck Youse wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> That controller MAY have a Fujitsu 8877 FDC chip in it.  This chip is one
>> of the few that can be used at 500 kilobaud data rates, allowing DSDD
>> floppy drives to be used at 1440 kilobyte size.
>
>Am I missing something?  Double-sided double-density 5.25" drives are
>360K, no?
>
If set for 40 tracks, double sided in the os9 descriptor then yes.  But I 
believe that chip can have the high speed data rate hack applied, which means 
the nearest $25 3.5" 1.44 meg drive with HD diskettes can be used in it.

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