More Auction goodies--More questions

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, tom ponsford wrote:
> 2 Sony OA-D31V-14
> "Doubleheight " 3-1/4 SS 360K floppy drives. The doubleheight as these
3-1/2"
Sony never made any of the 3.25" drives.
> are roughly double the height of a regular 3-/14 floppies(but not "full
3.5"
> height") I believe these may have been used in  older HP's.

Isn't that model number one of the ones that ran at 600 RPM?
(and would therefore need a 500K data transfer rate to do "360K")

> Does naybody know if these are the ones that require a "special" floppy
> disks that have to be manually opened, as the drives do not have a
> mechanism for opening them???
If you don't have any of the early disks (without shutter), or the middle
range ones with the latch and "pinch" corner, you can still remove the
shutter completely from one of the later 720K diskettes.