Help needed to read IBM 1M formated floppy on something modern.

On 14/11/06 20:20, "Bob" <caveguy at sbcglobal.net> wrote: I'm assuming here you mean 5.25" 1.2mb floppies? If you don't then don't read any further :) Old 3.5" floppies can still be read on modern drives can't they? I've just been through this for a client and ended up using the floppy drive Panasonic) and various older and older pentium motherboards until I hit paydirt with a ~1995 Pentium 200 board and Windows 95 running off a 1gb hard drive. I remembered a discussion here that basically said that despite modern BIOS' claiming to have 5.25" support the floppy controller itself won't see it correctly, surprisingly a 1998 Compaq Deskpro EN has the option to declare a 5.25" floppy in the BIOS but it can't address it correctly under Win98, this may have something to do with being unable to swap the drives over - normally the 5.25" drive is A: and the 3.5" drive is B:, this upsets the Deskpro AND Win98 which seem to expect the 3.5" drive to be A: and nothing else. Other solutions are bound to be available, YMMV, caveat emptor etc :) -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?