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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: need TRS80 Model 4P stuff
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.173513.10948@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:35:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Jan2.173513.10948
- References: <1992Dec26.033728.28686@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <Tg0LwB3w165w@coyote.datalog.com> <92366.200052CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- <CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
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- >The 720K drive referred to in a previous post -- Was that a 3.5 inch drive?
- >And, if so, can the stock disk controller in a Model 4 support such a drive? I
- >f it can, 720K disk drives would be an excellent 'high capacity' storage device
- > for a Model 4.
-
- As far as a floppy controller (and the software driving it) is concerned,
- there is *no* difference between the (rare) 5.25" 80 track DSDD drives
- and the 3.5" 80 track DSDD drives. I've hooked a 720k 3.5" drive to the
- external flkoppy connector on a model 4 and formatted it with no trouble
- (once I looked up the options for 80 track, double sided).
-
- If I ever get my model 4 up again, it'll have a pair of 360k 5.25" drives
- in the lower drive bay and a pair of 720lk 3.5" drives in the upper drive
- bay. They'll take a lot less power!
-
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