14 Nov
2006
14 Nov
'06
4:20 p.m.
On 14 Nov 2006 at 15:58, Geoff Reed wrote:
Win 98, and 2000 at least don't care about the
capacity of the "a" drive,
I've had 1.2 MB drives on them just fine, I have yet to try with win XP or
2003. any issues with win 98 and 2000 not being able to read/write a 1.2mb
drive as the 1st drive in the chain lie in the motherboard and bios.
...and I've had 360K and 720K drives as well. XP gets a bit uppity
though, if you try to format a 360K or 720K (or, IIRC, 1.2MB) drive.
The code's still in the driver, but someone at MS decided that /F:360
etc. shouldn't go into the command itself.
Should you happen to get your hands on some NEC 9801 DOS-V 1.3MB 3.5"
diskettes,Windows should read them just fine if they're used on a
Superdrive or most USB floppy drives. Formatting is another matter,
however.
Cheers,
Chuck