Working 8" Floppy drives???

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed May 7 20:15:01 2003

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
>
>On Wed, 7 May 2003, Nick Garnett wrote:
>> Does anyone know the whereabouts of any working 8" floppy
>> drives? I have a client who needs a few to allow a legacy
>> system to keep on working while I revamp their whole
>> system.
>
>Have you considered substituting 1.2M 5.25" drives?
>Once you make the appropriate cables and jumpering, they will usually work
>as a drop-in replacement, with NO software changes.
>

Hi
 One other thing that Fred didn't mention is that
some of the older systems use the data separator
on the 8 inch drives and not the raw data. I don't
recall any 1.2M drives with data separators.
Dwight
Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 20:15:01 BST