Wild-hair floppy drive question

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:41 AM

>>   From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net>
>>   Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:37 -0500
<snip>
>>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.
>
> I still do this in my Kapro 4/84.  In a pinch 1.44media will work fine
> if the media select hole (not write protect) is filled.
>
> Fortunatly I have a box of 720k media.
>
>
> Allison

3.5" DSDD media is still available and cheap but you may need to special 
order it.


Randy
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