[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

[coco at yourdvd.net]

The epson drives that I have are: Epson SD-880 Floppy Drive
They are commonly mistaked as SD-800, but this is because they are
comprised of both an SD-700 5.25" drive and an SD-800 3.5" drive. The
information can be found on DELLs site here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/dta/44078/
However, this doesn't include the information on jumpering the drive to
300 RPM, so I have placed a page here:
http://6809assemblylanguage.fortunecity.com/epsonsd880.html
hopefully this helps -r

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
> From: Dan Olson <dano at agora.rdrop.com>
> Date: Fri, April 13, 2007 8:23 pm
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> 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  >> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>>
> Cheers, Gene >>>>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of
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