Dual floppy drive

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue Jul 28 19:36:48 1998

>I recently got one of those combo drives -- the one with both a
>5.25" and a 3.5" floppy built in. It is the Teac FD505... I
>currently have a Teac FD-55GFV (RX33) on my RQDX3 at home... is
>anyone familiar with the two drives? Can I replace eht RX33 with

I'm not sure the newer Teac floppies are as multi-architecture friendly.
Recently I bought a brand new 5.25" Teac for a project that I was working
on. The manufacturer of the controller board went so far as to list Teac
drives as being the best ones to use.

I spent two days fighting with it before in desparation I pulled the one
out of my old 486 (an older model Teac). It worked flawlessly, first try.
Needless to say the new drive is now in the 486, and I picked up a bunch of
older Teac 5.25" drives at the last swapmeet.

                        Zane
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