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

From: Ross Archer <archer_at_topnow.com>
Date: Mon Aug 19 19:17:00 2002

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> 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

No. I tried two different cables, both new, but only have
one 360K drive. If anyone wants to send me a good 360K
drive
to compare against, I won't complain. ;)

I forgot to mention, I also tried it on my Linux box
with a K6-2 350. Also no dice with any of the 360K drivers.
Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 19:17:00 BST