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- From: beynon@nnn.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Michael D. Beynon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.153420.18498@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:34:20 GMT
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- I have a 4-floppy controller, and I use ...
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- Drive A: 5 1/4" 1.2
- Drive B: 3 1/2" 1.44
- Drive C: HD
- Drive D: 5 1/4" 360k
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- Why? because 1.2 floppy drives are not guaranteed to write reliably to
- 360k floppies. If you do, it may not be readable in a 360k drive.
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- YES, for all the people that are going to say that it works fine for them,
- I thought so also, until I sent out a commercial program I wrote and got
- tuns of calls complaining about bad disks.
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- The tape drive I have uses a piggy-back type cable that allows it to be
- connected to a system that doesn't have a free floppy "port".
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- Michael D. Beynon
- beynon@nnn.crd.ge.com
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