Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to a pentium-class PC?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Aug 19 18:40:01 2002

Ross,

  What OS are you running? I seem to recall that W98 dropped support for single sided 5 1/4" disks and some of the other older formats (320k, etc). I suspect that that's whats happened to your drive.

   Joe

At 03:45 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Can't make my Toshiba 360K floppy drive work on my Athlon or
>P4 machine to save my life. I've tried every jumper setting
>I can think of on the drive. The best I get is a disk
>failure,
>where I try to access the drive, and the LED comes on and
>spins
>the disk for a while, then fails.
>
>Yes, I'm using the right cable. :) It has a 34 pin header
>plug
>(remember those?) that used to be standard on floppy cables
>all
>those years ago. Jameco still sells them. :)
>Yes, I set the BIOS to 360K. Still no dice.
>
>Anybody have any clues as to what might be going wrong?
>
>Thanks, even if nobody has any ideas. :)
>
>-- Ross
>
Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 18:40:01 BST