On 11/26/2012 06:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:19:21 -0800 > "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> dijo: > >> Is it possible that the BIOS doesn't support 5-1/4" drives? Or did I >> miss something else? > It is not only possible, but likely. One of the advantages of the > (then) new 3-1/2" drives was that they were standardized. The bad old > 5-1/4" drives were sometimes 360 MB, sometimes some other number, the > number of sectors were different from one manufacturer to the next, > and there were all kinds of other incompatibilities. It was a nightmare > for BIOS manufacturers as well as users. You were lucky if your 5-1/4" > floppy could be read on your friend's machine. The computer world > flocked to 3-1/2" drives as quickly as possible.
I do remember those days. My first machine had 10 hole, hard sector drives. > Assuming the disk you want to read is for an IBM PC (or clone), which > at least standardized on 360 MB, you'll need a BIOS from probably > significantly before 2000. It is from a PC. > I'll bet Free Geek has a ton of old motherboards with a BIOS that would > do the trick. In fact, you can probably get one for free just by > dumpster diving in their trash. I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the thoughts. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
