On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:28:49 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> 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 :-(
> - Pete Randolph -
> - Morristown Corners, Vermont -
> How do you reconfig a 1.2MB drive to 360K? 1.2MB drive handles 360K diskettes
> without doing anything special to the drive.
CMOS... So that it writes in that way.
As to the disks themselves, I only have a small sample of 5 1/4's, but
it seems that DD's have one small hole next to the spindle opening and
HC's have two holes.... or is related to soft sectoring vs. hard
sectoring?
- Pete Randolph -
- Morristown Corners, Vermont -
