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Roy wood wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Dave Walker wrote:
>>> That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD
>>> drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one just in
>>> case?
>> He is dead right. Qemulator warns about this and none of my machines
>> accept DD disks.
>> Apparently it is an XP issue.
> It actually depends on the chipset of the motherboard and / or the BIOS.
> They removed ED disks from several BIOS types a while ago and DD ones
> have been disappearing over the last few years. Many laptops will not
> see DD disks any more - many don't any kind of floppy access at all.
> Some chipsets now only support the HD disks.
It seems I had this chipset on all machines up to now (8-(#
I have very recently got a new laptop and USB floppy. I must try again.
Tony
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