[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

Dan Olson dano at agora.rdrop.com
Fri Apr 13 23:23:14 EDT 2007


If you can jumper these to 300 RPM, could you please send me the jumper 
info??  Thanks!

 	Dan


On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 coco at yourdvd.net wrote:

> i have about 7 epson and chinon dual 5.25/3.5 drives, which can be
> changed to 300 or 360 rpm (the epson at least - i haven't looked at the
> chinons in awhile). I hadn't thought about using them with the Color
> Computer, but I guess it's possible - the 3.5 will autoswitch to 720k
> with a 720k floppy disk inserted (i think) and I can jumper the 5.25 to
> be 720k (also, again i think)...
> -r
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
>> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>> Date: Thu, April 12, 2007 2:46 pm
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>
>> On Thursday 12 April 2007, Frank Pittel wrote:
>>> Was there ever a 720K 5.25 floppy drive? I rember the sizes being 360K
>>> and 1.2M. The 3.5 floppies were 720K and 1.4M. I don't remember how to
>>> tell the difference between a 360K and 1.2M drive though
>>>
>> Yes, there were several, from both Teac, Pamnasonic and Mitsumi, and
>> I've
>> owned a dozen or so including half a dozen of Tandon 100-4's, a full
>> height
>> version.  MOST 1.2's can be slowed from 360 to 300 rpm by a jumper, at
>> which
>> point they are identical to a 720k at the coco controllers clock rate.
>>  I
>> presently am using such a drive.
>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:39:49PM -0700, coco at yourdvd.net wrote:
>>>> actually, i think the floppy is still one of the devices that the os
>>>> expects to be set in the bios. on my xp, it doesn't matter if i've got
>>>> a 360k, 720k or 1.2m 5.25 hooked up - it just shows floppy 5.25" in
>>>> control panel.
>>>>
>>>> anyway, you could try hooking them to a coco - it's either going to
>> work
>>>> or it won't. =r
>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
>>>>> From: "mike delyea"
>>>>> Date: Thu, April 12, 2007 1:24 pm
>>>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>>>>>
>>>>> 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  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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