Well, as I said it was meant more as a 'wouldn't this be nice' picture, not one 
of an actual fully functional configuration; still, it wouldn't be impossible...

As an OT aside; one of the things on my list is the opposite challenge, namely 
to modify the speed of the 3.5" drive from 300rpm to 360, the same as the 5 
1/4" HD drive.

In the S100 world and elsewhere many systems used 8" drives, which are becoming 
scarce and expensive (as are the diskettes); as it happens both 5 1/4" and 3.5" 
HD drives are fully compatible with the 8" formats except for the lower speed 
of the 3.5" drives.

Some 3.5" drives have jumpers to change to 360 rpm and many of us do use them 
as replacements for 8" drives, but AFAIK none of the dual 3.5/5.25" HD combo 
drives have that jumper option.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Fezzler 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 3:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [M100] DVI replacement floppy drive


  Nice setup there!


  On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 07:29:28 AM EDT, Mike Stein <[email protected]> 
wrote: 




  ...or maybe even:


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: James Zeun 
    To: M100 Mailing List 
    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
      > 



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