Floppy formats under 386/ix

Randy Suess randy at chinet.chi.il.us
Thu Jul 5 22:54:39 AEST 1990


In article <581 at vidiot.UUCP> brown at vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
]Wait-a-minute.  I must be missing something here.  The IBM compatable PC
]world has never supported 5-1/4" 720K floppies.  It has only been 160K,
]single-sided; 320K double-sided and finally 360K double-sided.  Then the
]high density 5-1/4" drive came along and we got 1.2MB.

	The 3b2 series uses 720k 5 1/4 inch floppies.  XENIX and
	AT&T UNIX will read them just fine, but ISC's driver won't.

-randy
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Randy Suess
randy at chinet.chi.il.us



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