5.25" drive identification

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Apr 20 13:28:01 2003

> The beige faceplate on 360K is yellower than on 1.2M

:-) Only because the 360K drive is likely to be older...

>
> 360K has jumpers for drive 0,1,2,3; 1.2M has jumpers for A,B

Nonsense!. I've seen plenty of 1.2M drives with 4 drive select jumpers...

>
> 360K has a screen that is usually white on black; 1.2M has a screen that
> is white on blue. (If it bluescreens, then the drive is a 1.2M)

If my PERQ ever bluescreens I'll eat a PDP11 (I have a 5.25" 1.2Mbyte
drive hooked up to the PERQ as a little hack. The PERQ, of course, has a
white monochrome monitor).

That's quite apart from the fact that PC/AT machines (the most common
place to find 1.2M drives) most certainly support MDA and CGA cards...

-tony
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 13:28:01 BST