26 Dec
2003
26 Dec
'03
3:23 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Nico de Jong wrote:
HOW can you "designed out" 160K and 320K?
Those are PHYSICALLY the same as the PC 360K format that is
still actively supported.
Any system that can read PC 360K, but not PC 160K and 320K
has BROKEN SOFTWARE, NOT a hardware issue.
"Note
that most PC floppy controllers have broken single density modes.
Well, that's
old hat to me. Around 1988 or so, I suddenly got problems
reading "elderly" 5.25" discs on new PC's. The reason was, that the
160K and
320K capacities were "designed out" of the floppy controllers normally used
in PC's