I thought I'd put out a warning about the Teac FD-55BV-16-U 5.25" floppy
drives. They seem to be totally unsuited for anything other than reading
MS-DOS floppies.
I bought one a couple months ago, for a project with my Amiga, since they
were what the developers of the Catweasel board recommended. Spent about
two days trying to get it to work. Finally I pulled the drive out of my
486 (an older Teac drive) and it worked immediatly. Assuming the Amiga
part of the equation was the problem I put the new drive in the 486.
Well, yesterday I needed to make archival images of some RX50's. No dice,
it absolutly would not read them. I'd picked up some older Teac's at the
last swap meet, so I got them out, and after two that only semi worked I
found one that works just fine, and was able to make my images, copy them
back to new floppies, and boot my PDP-11/73 off of them.
Note, I tried using the Teac FD-55BV-16-U drive with both 'putr' and
'teledisk'. Neather would work with it.
Zane
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Received on Tue Aug 11 1998 - 00:06:24 BST