4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

Randy McLaughlin randy at s100-manuals.com
Mon Jan 17 19:11:22 CST 2005


From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
> 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

I never had any problems with the 360K written on a 1.2mb drive but I always 
bulk erased it first.  On the other hand I usually had a (and still have) a 
360K drive laying around.


Randy 





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