Sorry; the 4-drive picture was not meant entirely seriously since no matter
what the DVI only provides for two drives; the 5 1/4" drive does indeed
normally spin at 360rpm instead of 300 but since we're talking about
non-standard formats anyway that shouldn't necessarily matter. Looks cool
though ;-)
You won't be able to read anything other than 180K 5 1/4"DD format diskettes on
other drives; no different than trying to read your 3.5"HD diskettes on another
drive. The point in reply to James was that if you don't mind being
incompatible with the rest of the world then it doesn't much matter what disk
drive/diskettes you use although no matter what you'll still only have 180K per
(normally only one) side.
To remain compatible you'll need a 5 1/4" 40 track DD drive (usually called
360K)
No, without some modifications it would not solve your issue of requiring an
external 5 1/4 drive to read DVI-format diskettes in your dual 3.5" system;
sorry if I implied that. The main issue would actually be that the 5 1/4"HD
drive would have to double-step; drive speed and density might be modifiable.
We had a discussion about different drives a few years back which is where I
originally posted these pictures, and we actually did try some of the various
drive combinations.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory McGill
To: m...@bitchin100.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [M100] DVI replacement floppy drive
no that is a high density drive without any real configuration abilities.. it
is hard wired for d0 d1 internally AND they are at a different spindle speed
than a single/double density drive so you wont be able to read disks with it
written on other drives and vice versa
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:29 AM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
...or maybe even:
----- Original Message -----
From: James Zeun
To: M100 Mailing List
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2020 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] DVI replacement floppy drive
Wait, you actually have 3.5" floppy drives working on the DVI?
Would not have expected that
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, 11:43 pm Greg Swallow, <gswal...@mchsi.com> wrote:
James:
I'd try it. Seems the DVI is pretty forgiving. I have boxes & boxes of
old 3.5in diskettes. So, installed two 1.44mb drives in my DVI. I don't get
1.44mb or double sided, but I have plenty of media.
GregS <><
Jul 3, 2020 2:53:53 PM james.z...@gmail.com:
> Would a 180kb floppy drive work in the DVI?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
