Yes, those are not the drives you want.
None of those exceptions.
I was merely listing sone of the weird ones to avoid (or use for weird
stuff)
IF I remember correctly (unrefreshed dynamic wet-ware RAM), 34 pins of the
40 pins of the PS/2 drive were the same, and the other 6 pins had the
pow
On 3/30/23 10:48, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> The drives in many IBM PS/2 machines don't seem to have a media sensor,
> so they can't tell the difference between "720K" and "1.4M" disks.
> "720K" is about 600 Oersted, and "1.4M" is about 750 Oersted, so they
> are close enough that sometimes on
On Thu, 30 Mar 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Absent any alignment issues, or dirty heads, just about any HD drive
(e.g. Teac FD235HF) is equally facile in both DD and HD media. Quite
often, a DD-only (e.g. Teac FD235F) drive will have performance inferior
to that of the HD-DD drives.
Other
On 3/30/23 09:24, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
>> Is there a list of floppy disk drives which could read and write both
>> 3.5"
>> 1.44mb and 720k diskettes?
Absent any alignment issues, or dirty heads, just about any HD drive
(e.g. Teac FD235HF) is equally facile in both DD and HD media. Quit
Is there a list of floppy disk drives which could read and write both 3.5"
1.44mb and 720k diskettes?
Replace any SMD electrolytic caps on the drive pcb if there are any.
- Ethan
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