4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jan 17 09:49:14 2005

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > The whole impetus behind this was that I was trying to read an old 360K
> > (might even be 320K or even 180K, I'm not sure) disk and while I could
> > read the directory, none of the files larger than say a cluster could be
> > read. I attributed this to the drive not being a "true" 360K drive.
>
> Are you sure that the disk is in a PC-DOS format?
> If the diskette is 96tpi (720k 5.25) such as PC-JX, Toshiba 300, . . .
> then track 0 will be readbale, but the other tracks won't.

Actually, I'm not sure, but this is interesting to know.

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