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

From: DAVID L. ORMAND <dlormand_at_aztec.asu.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 20 13:23:36 2002

Sorry I can't help with the original intent of this thread. I've
got enough 360Ks and 1.2Ms kicking around that if I find one that
doesn't cooperate, I pitch it and grab another. If the Toshiba
won't work, and the BIOS supports the format, get another drive.
They're easy to find, and inexpensive.

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

>I'm using the floppy controller on an old WD RLL
>HD controller. I don't recall if I ever had a 360K floppy on the mb's
>floppy controller or not.

I got "refreshed" at work, and the new peecee (Compaq Evo) won't
recognize my 360K. I NEED that 360K to transfer stuff to my
TI-99/4A here. The BIOS doesn't appear to handle anything other
than 1.44MB drives (A and B; why would you ever want two 1.44MB?).
Is this just a stupid Compaq thing, or is it becoming common among
BIOS and motherboard producers to drop support for older formats?

I didn't think about using a peripheral card with a floppy
controller; I've got a few kicking around in my "lab" at home. With
my luck, this Evo won't have ISA slots, though. I'll bet there
aren't any PCI cards with floppy controllers... But even if you
put a controller that can handle 5.25" drives, doesn't the BIOS
still need to be set to 360K? If it isn't there, it isn't there,
seems to me. Pardon my peecee-ignorance, it is NOT my favorite
platform.
Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 13:23:36 BST