PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
Allison
ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Thu Oct 13 20:36:22 CDT 2005
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>Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
> From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:20:23 +0100 (BST)
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
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>> you might be right by coincidence. However the second letter and third are
>> for options to the basic drive such as door latch or media ready indicator.
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>The third letter, sure. But I thought single speed/density drives had
>just 2 letters (type and options), dual speed/dual density drives had 3.
>I've certainly seen HFR (or some other 3 letter combination starting with
>'HD') for 3.5" drives capable of 720K and 1.44M.
OK I have one so I know what it is. FD55BVR, care to guess? Also a FD55BFR?
Hint neither are dual speed.
Allison
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