Wild-hair floppy drive question

[Patrick Finnegan]

Doc Shipley declared on Saturday 11 June 2005 06:21 pm:
>    Would a DSHD floppy drive with a DSHD disk in it look like a 5.25"
> DSQD drive to an Altos 580?  IOW, could I just plug it in and go?

That's a good question.  I think that as long as the Altos uses the SA400 
(?) floppy bus (like the DSHD drive), it probably will work.  I've 
read/written DSQD disks using a DSHD floppy drive on a PC just fine.

I'd just give it a shot, you're unlikely to break anything. :)

Pat
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