Re: T21 floppy capacity

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From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 18:54:24 EDT

Sure, any floppy drive can use those, but only a 2.88 drive can format to
2.88
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From: "Jim Schneider" <jschneid_at_home.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: T21 floppy capacity

> I thought I noticed in a message awhile back that the T21 floppy drive
> was able to use 2.8mb floppy disks, so I got a couple of IBM "ED" 4.0mb
> floppy disks ( from an old AIX system ), these have the index hole
> further from the corner than a normal "HD" floppy. When I put one in my
> T21 ( Win98SE ) and right-click to format the only choices shown are
> 1.44mb and 720k.
>
> Anyone know what's the real story ?
>
>

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