18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
3:22 p.m.
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:34:54 -0500
From: "joe lobocki" <jlobocki at gmail.com>
On 7/17/08, Jeff Walther <trag at io.com> wrote:
> My bad. I was thinking of "autoinject"
and not 800K vs. 1.44MB.
> However, unless you're a purist for collector's reasons, I think the
> 1.44
> MB drive will work fine in the SE. It will read and write 800K and 400K
> disks just as well as an 800K disk drive.
jeff, you may be right, but my understanding was that
a 1.44 drive
wont function in a system with an 800k set of chips, and that it needs
to be chipped or the logic board swapped. yes, I am a purist, but i
think i might be able to slide on this one if it works.
First, please do not top post, and please do edit away irrelevant quoted
text.
Second, the 1.44 MB drive will not function as a 1.44 MB drive in a system
with 800K chips. However, it will function just fine as an 800K drive.
There is no chipping or logic board swapping needed to use the 1.44 MB
floppy drive as an 800K drive. The only possible issue is the floppy
drive cable, as I wrote earlier, but the difference (IIRC) was only one
line which would be easy enough to change.
Still, I'm pretty certain that the floppy cable issue was one of
auto-inject vs. manual-inject drives, not 800K vs. 1.44MB drives, because
I remember installing an auto-inject drive in a machine normally equipped
with manual-inject drives, once, and the drive began continuously
ejecting. That's caused by a difference in the cable, but is completely
irrelevant (IIRC) to your situation.
Jeff Walther