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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Floppy formats under 386/ix
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.125439.25803@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Jul 90 12:54:39 GMT
References: <830@mwtech.UUCP> <581@vidiot.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <581@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
]Wait-a-minute.  I must be missing something here.  The IBM compatable PC
]world has never supported 5-1/4" 720K floppies.  It has only been 160K,
]single-sided; 320K double-sided and finally 360K double-sided.  Then the
]high density 5-1/4" drive came along and we got 1.2MB.

	The 3b2 series uses 720k 5 1/4 inch floppies.  XENIX and
	AT&T UNIX will read them just fine, but ISC's driver won't.

-randy
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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us