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- From: paul@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu (Paul Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Need advice on 1.4M drive****
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175532.3988@arizona.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:55:31 GMT
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- In article 1@bcvms.bc.edu, faype@bcvms.bc.edu () writes:
- > I have an ancient ST520, and need a new external drive. Does anyone know
- > if I can swap in a 1.4Meg instead of the 720K? Do I need a new driver,
- > even if I just want to read/write 720K disks?
- > -pete
- >
- > faype@bcvms.bc.edu
- >
- > P.S. I have some ancient TOS version, I'm not sure what - 2.0?
-
- 2.0 is actually rather new, more likely you have something on the order of 1.0.
- Anyway, I understand TOS 2.05 or better is needed to format high-density, but
- you should be able to use a high-density drive to format 720k.
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- -Paul Harris @ @
- paul@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu \___/
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