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caver99

Floppy Drive

Posted on: 2008/10/27 14:16 #1

Just popping in

Hi All,

I have got 2 x sony 1.44 floppys in my A1 but i can only use 1, is it possible to use 2 and will they still only format 720 or can they format 1.44?

TSK

Re: Floppy Drive

Posted on: 2008/10/27 18:17 #2

Just can't stay away

@caver99

Read the FDTool.doc in the OS4.0 "Documentation" drawer. (I don't remember in which OS4 version a1floppy.device came with the first time. OS4 Final ?)

Quote:

can they format 1.44

I think you can.

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pvanni

Re: Floppy Drive

Posted on: 2008/10/27 19:46 #3

Not too shy to talk

@caver99
I think you can use 2 floppy drive with the right cable,
I never tried to format a floppy on my A1, but
for shure it can read and write 1.44 floppy

Snuffy

Re: Floppy Drive

Posted on: 2008/10/28 16:25 #4

Just can't stay away

@caver99

FD0: formats to 1.3Mb, while PC0: formats at 1.4Mb using CrossDosFS handler. A floppy IDE cable with two heads should work.

tonyw

Re: Floppy Drive

Posted on: 2008/10/29 0:10 #5

Quite a regular

@caver99

The device driver should see either or both floppy drives.
It doesn't matter where you connect them (Master or Slave).

Formatting is a problem since there is no way to tell the driver how you want a disk formatted. It can only format a 1.4 MB disk as 1.4 MB and a 720 kB disk as 720 kB.

cheers
tony

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