[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

Dan Olson dano at agora.rdrop.com
Fri Apr 13 23:07:01 EDT 2007


This can't be done, all drive operate the same, they just hit a physical 
stop when asked to step beyond the last track.  Otherwise the controller 
can only step in either direction, read and write, check the write 
protect, and check for track 0.

 	Dan


On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, mike delyea wrote:

> You could always hook them up to a PC and see if it autodetects it.  IBMs
> are usually pretty good at that.
>
> On 4/12/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thursday 12 April 2007, John T Chasteen wrote:
>> >Sorry for that.  The drives are FD5481
>> 
>> Got a brand name?  That doesn't google.
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