25 Feb
2008
25 Feb
'08
11:18 a.m.
On Feb 21, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Are many 3.5" drives able to be set up for 360RPM?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
What I'm
probably going to have to do at some point is decide on a
format I
want to use with that BBII. The time I put it together there
seemed to be an
assumption that one would be using 8" drives, I think that's what
they gave
you the BIOS and their version of CP/M on, but I'd put it in a
box with a
couple of 5.25" drives. These days I think perhaps 3.5" HD
floppies might be
a better choice since I have so darn many of them (both disks and
drives) on
hand here. You can't even find 5.25" drives that easily any
more, never
mind 8", and I haven't looked for the media for them for ages.
Why not run your 3.5" drives at 360 RPM? Then the HD format
corresponds exactly to 8" drives.