4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Mon Jan 17 18:58:56 CST 2005


Doc wrote:
>    I have a 5.25/3.5" combo drive that handles all four of those formats
> (and 3.5" 360K) just fine.  The gorgeous part is that it occupies a
> single 5.25" bay.

Won't write 360K 5.25" disks reliably.  1.2M drives have a narrower head
gap than 360K drives, because they use 96 TPI rather than 48 TPI.

Eric




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