They work, but not as 1.44mb drives. Not even 720k or double-sided. That would require hardware changes/additions.
Since later drives support formatting to former technology, I thought it would be worth a try. I made sure the drives had jumper blocks for drive select. My DVI came with the standard 5.25" drive zero and M100 boot diskette. The first 3.5" went in as drive 1. Formatting worked fine to 180k on 3.5 diskettes. So, installed another 3.5 as drive zero. Booted from the 5.25" to 3.5" Backup System diskette and we were in business. Also have a CCR-81 on the DVI Model 100 and connected it to a desktop/TPDD (mComm). Only problem would be moving software from 5.25" to 3.5" now. I would have to open up the DVI and swap a drive for the task. God Bless, GregS <>< Jul 7, 2020 4:32:30 AM Mike Stein <[email protected]>: > ...or maybe even: > > [cid:36B70691E5714CCE9CDEA74985899B30@310e2] > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: James Zeun[[email protected]] >> >> To: M100 Mailing List[[email protected]] >> >> 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, <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]: >>> >>>> Would a 180kb floppy drive work in the DVI? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>
