olePigeon
Veteran Member
Looking for a black 1.2MB floppy drive. 1/2 or full height, doesn't matter
Thanks!
Thanks!
Is there a reason to keep a 360 KB drive instead of replacing it with a 1.2 MB drive in a regular old 486 DOS PC?
As fas as what Ole said above, that's not really accurate. An accurate statement would be... You'll need a 360 to ‘reliably’ write DD disks.1/ You'll need a 360 to write DD disks.
However the readability goes up if the 360K disk is first formatted in a 360K drive and the disk is then written in a 1.2M drive.
I have to agree with you completely. I wrote thousands 360K disks on my 1.2M drives for 10 years and those disks were used on literally hundreds of different machines without any problem. You know, I think they purposely sent all the really good HD drives to us in the East and let the Left Coast get most of the junk!I've never had the degree of compatibility problems between 360K drives and 1.2MB drives that everyone warns about. The only drive I have that tends to be fussy about that is the full-height Tandon drive in my IBM 5150. I think many of the later half-height 360K drives use a narrower head in order to improve compatibility with disks written to by 1.2MB drives.
It's not an opinion -- it's an observation.Well, you guys obviously have your own opinions.
That you're aware of.No 360K disks have ever exploded.
That you're aware of.