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Re: Good source for "new" 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks?



SlickRCBD wrote:

(snip, I wrote)

For 5.25" drives, the write current is selected by pin 2, set by the
controller based on what it thinks it is writing.  You would have
to change the signal into pin 2 to write LD data on HD disks.

No, high density 5.25" disks simply fail to work in my AppleDisk 5.25" drive. They won't format. I'm pretty sure that HD disks didn't exist when I got the drive, so I doubt it knows to check.

My comment would only apply to writing DD format in HD drives that
allow that operation.  It takes more write current to write to an HD
disk, which is why it won't work in older (pre-HD) drives.

-- glen