Wild-hair floppy drive question

[Scott Stevens]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:01:12 -0500
Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote:

> Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> > Doc asks:
> > 
> >>   Would a DSHD floppy drive with a DSHD disk in it
> > 
> > 
> > You mean a 96 TPI high-density 5.25" disk and drive (e.g., IBM 1.2M
> > format that was introduced with the PC/AT)?
> 
>    Sorry, no, I meant a 3.5" floppy drive.  As soon as Allison replied
>    I 
> realized the question was ambiguous.
> 
>    I've found something intersting about the Compaq m/b that hosts my 
> 1.2MB 5.25" disk drive, though.
> 
>    That board auto-detects all its hardware on every boot.  If I boot 
> with a DSQD disk in that drive, the BIOS auto-updates the settings to 
> '3.5" 1.44MB Drive".
> 
>    Which is what prompted my question in the first place.
> 
> 
> 	Doc

Years back, I had good luck using a 720K (DSDD) 3-1/2" drive in place of
the 720K '80 track' 5-1/4" drive in an Intel PDS workstation.  I
'converted over' all the original media from 5-1/4" by installing the 3
and 5 inch drives in a 'dual drive' configuration then ran the disk copy
utility.

Blank new 720K 3-1/2" media itself has become scarce now, though.