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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: 3-1/2 inch floppy drives
Keywords: device descriptors
Message-ID: <2160@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 00:12:52 GMT
References: <385@mfgfoc.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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In article <385@mfgfoc.UUCP> bill@mfgfoc.UUCP (Bill McDowell) writes:
>I am under the impression so far that the OS only supports
>5-1/4 and 8 inch floppy drives directly, although I can use a
>descriptor intended for an 80-track 5-1/4 drive to obtain
>640kBytes on the Fuji M2537K.

"Normal" 3.5 inch drives are the same as 5.25 inch drives to the computer.
So you were successful.

>
>The Fuji M2537K has the capability of storing 1.4MBytes.
>
>Does anyone know how I can take advantage of the 3-1/2 inch

>drives capabilities? Thank you.  

2 MB- (unformatted) drives are "similiar" to 8 inch drives (data
rate...).  Try to tell your system to use it as an 8 inch drive.  This
should work and give you 1.2 MByte formatted capacity. 

hase
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