Five and quarter drives

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Fri Feb 11 17:28:39 2005

>From: "William Layer" <william.layer_at_comcast.net>
>
>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.

No
 I believe that both 360K and 1.2M are double sided.
Dwight

 
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