On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 23:26:25 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:03:15 -0500, "Pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ahhh...
>> How can one tell what type of drive one has? I just reconfig'd a 1.2MB
>> to 360K and installed MS-DOS 4.01 sucessfully on an old 286. (it was the
>> only OS available <g>)
>> I assume the track width is determined by the head construction; but
>> they all look the same on the outside :-(
> One correspondent told me that he had made the observation that 360K
> drives *usually* have a red LED and 1.2 MB drives *usually* have a
> green LED.
THX Sam!
This drive is red, my friend's 286SX-6's drive is green. I have configed
this to 1.2 and put some games on reformatted DD disks as a test. They
transferred to his box fine. Such good luck had me confused.
Now I know better!
- Pete Randolph -
- Morristown Corners, Vermont -
