5.25" drive identification

I guess you missed the irony. Yes. It is rudimentary and almost totally useless. If you've handled as many hundreds of drives as I have, you'd know that color, shape, size, door-type, whatever, has no bearing. I mean, you can guess from experience and be right more often than not, but if a customer called me by phone and described a drive, I wouldn't venture to say 40 or 80 track, high or regular density etc without testing the drive myself. Barring a test, a model number would be the only other way I'd swear to a drive's capacity. Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Worley Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 11:21 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: 5.25" drive identification Boy, I'm so glad that is settled. Now I know how to identify any 5.25" mech just by the color of the faceplate and soldermask on the pcb. Wow. Why didn't I ever think of that? Until this moment, I've been using silly things like model numbers, testing, and something no one has yet mentioned: The step rate marked on the stepper in degrees. Sometime this can yield a clue. Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 9:09 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: 5.25" drive identification The beige faceplate on 360K is yellower than on 1.2M 360K has jumpers for drive 0,1,2,3; 1.2M has jumpers for A,B 360K has a screen that is usually white on black; 1.2M has a screen that is white on blue. (If it bluescreens, then the drive is a 1.2M)