30 Mar
2023
30 Mar
'23
10:24 a.m.
On 3/30/23 09:24, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
> Is there a list of floppy disk drives which could
read and write both
> 3.5"
> 1.44mb and 720k diskettes?
Absent any alignment issues, or dirty heads, just about any HD drive
(e.g. Teac FD235HF) is equally facile in both DD and HD media. Quite
often, a DD-only (e.g. Teac FD235F) drive will have performance inferior
to that of the HD-DD drives.
Other issues that might crop up in reqplacement, such as READY on pin 34
versus DISK CHANGED, does have to be taken into account.
--Chuck