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

> 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.

Total to date:  3 black drives and 1 tan do not work, 2 tan do work in 
linux.  I tried unconditional format on the disk first.

> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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