[Coco] Floppy hardware...

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 12:18:58 Christopher Barnett Fox did opine:

> The jumpers on the TEAC 55-GFR allow for 300RPM operation, and the drive
> will format disks, but it can't read older disks I've got that were
> formatted and written with a true 360K drive. This seems to be a known
> issue with these 1.2MB 5.25" drives, and I understand the general
> recommendation is to avoid them. I'm tending to agree.

They have a jumper to set them to 360 rpm, and they are then a great 720k 
drive.

Cheers, Gene
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