DSQD Drives (Was: RE: Diags/Boot image for Altos 580) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Mar 2002

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  From: Joe &lt;rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com&gt; 
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    Buy?  Who said anything about buying???  I can get
all the drives that I
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  want for next to nothing. If I do pay for a PC,
it's only about $1 each. 
Joe, if you ever run out of sources (fat chance) I've got mountains of
5.25" drives you can have for five cents a pound.  Hell, I've got over 20
of 'em here at home!

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 Most of the times that I use a 1.2M
 drive to read/write other formats, it fails. Even when it doesn't fail the
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  copies don't hold up well. I could NEVER read my
SB 180 disks (QD) in a 1.2
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  Mb drive.  In fact, I finally pulled the 1.2 Mb drive
out of my main PC and
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  put a 360k drive back into it since the 5 1/4"
drive was used almost
 entirely for reading/writing old disks. 
Yup, I did the same thing on my main box, and getting rid of that 1.2MB
drive has really simplified my life.

Glen
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