Working 8" Floppy drives??? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 May 2003

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 From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)"
&lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt;

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Nick Garnett wrote:
  Does anyone know the whereabouts of any working
8" floppy
 drives?  I have a client who needs a few to allow a legacy
 system to keep on working while I revamp their whole
 system. 
Have you considered substituting 1.2M 5.25" drives?
Once you make the appropriate cables and jumpering, they will usually work
as a drop-in replacement, with NO software changes.

Hi
 One other thing that Fred didn't mention is that
some of the older systems use the data separator
on the 8 inch drives and not the raw data. I don't
recall any 1.2M drives with data separators.
Dwight