[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

[coco at yourdvd.net]

No problem, I had already pressed send when I noticed mistaked instead
of mistaken.. it even sounds funny...r

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive
> From: Dan Olson <dano at agora.rdrop.com>
> Date: Sat, April 14, 2007 7:58 pm
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> Cool, thanks! Dan On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 coco at yourdvd.net wrote: > 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  >> Date:
> Fri, April 13, 2007 8:23 pm >> To: CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts  >> >> 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. >>>>>>
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