Making Osborne 1 boot disks

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 19:49:48 1999

Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> wrote:
> > The biggest trouble with making SSSD on a PC is that
> > you should use a SD drive. If you have a DD drive, the
> > track width is smaller ( assuming that we are talking
> > about 5-1/4 inch drives). In an emergency, one can place
>
> No, SD and DD 40-track drives use the same track width.
> It's only 80-track drives (which category includes but
> is not limited to HD drives such as the IBM 1.2M format)
> that use narrower heads.

Ah yes, excuse me
Dwight
Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 19:49:48 BST

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