Five and quarter drives

From: William Layer <william.layer_at_comcast.net>
Date: Fri Feb 11 17:00:43 2005

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:05:56 +1030
"Parker, Kevin" <KParker_at_workcover.com> wrote:

>
> Can someone refresh my memory please whether it was possible to visually
> tell 360K and 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch floppy drives apart (the drive that is,
> not the media).

Unless I'm quite mistaken, the 1.2M drives have two r/w heads - one for each side of the media, whereas the 360K have only one.

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