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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is the d360 supposed to be a 360K or a 1.2M drive?
>
> d360 is a 360kb on a 360kb drive.
> h360 is 360kb on a 1.2mb drive.
1.2MB drives is 'h' for high density?  d for double density?

> u360 is 360kb on a 3.5" floppy.
On 720K or 1.44M drive?  Or either?  u720 works in a 1.44M drive.

The three drives that DO NOT work with dev/fd1d360 are definitely 360K 
drives.  Perhaps the linux device is written to only work with newer 
models.  I think BL is set already to work with 1.2M drives and 1.2M 
disks, (fd0h1200 and fd1h1200) but I don't want to use those because I 
have a vast collection of 360K floppy disks and the lower-capacity they 
are, the less likely they are to go bad.  I store small files on them for 
years (old translations).

I was just lucky that the first one I tried did work, I guess.  Will try 
another tan drive since the three black ones won't work with linux.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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