Re: 2.88 Floppy Drive

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From: Ken D'Ambrosio (kend_at_cisco.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 08:11:27 EST


If you can find a 2.88 MB floppy, most all operating systems and major
BIOSes support it. But finding the 2.88 is going to be the hard part.

-Ken

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Mark Gardiner wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:57:07 -0500
> From: Mark Gardiner <100550.3170_at_compuserve.com>
> To: thinkpad <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Subject: 2.88 Floppy Drive
>
> Amongst the Floppy Drives I recently purchased, (FRU 29H9230 and 84G2269 of
> which I have some left if anyone interested)
> was a 2.88Mb drive...!
>
> It functions very well in 1.44 / 720Kb format but are any additional
> drivers needed to get at the 2.88Mb format? The TPAD features/Sys info sees
> it as a 2.88, so is it a question of finding the 2.88Mb HDDs??
>
> These 2.88Mb drives are quite a rarity aren't they?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
> UK
>
>


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