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

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Mon Aug 19 19:08:00 2002

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ross Archer wrote:

> Joe wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
> and it has settings for 360K.

This may seem obvious, but are you sure that the drive and cable are
functional? I've never had a problem with hooking a 360KB drive to any
PC, including my ASUS dual-athlon board.

-- Pat
Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 19:08:00 BST