11 Oct
2008
11 Oct
'08
5:18 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
IBM PS/2s did it optically.
Peace... Sridhar
The first issue is to get the drive to ignore the
difference between
1.44MB and 720KB media
I think drives nearly always do the detection via a microswitch, don't
they? (It wouldn't surprise me if at least one wasn't using some kind of
optical arrangement). In the event of no jumper, cutting traces or
bridging switch pins with solder should do the job I would have thought.