Date   : Wed, 25 May 2005 19:10:48 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive compatibility

In article <5b8c4b704d.philpem@...>, Philip Pemberton
<philpem@...> writes

>I've just dug a Y-E Data
>1.2MB drive out of my spares box and it really didn't seem to want to do
>anything other than cause "Disc Error 18"s and other such nonsense.

Not surprising, really, 1.2M drives spin the disc at 360rpm instead of
300.  You may be able to jumper the drive to spin at 300rpm by default.
1.2M drives are also high density; again, there may be a jumper to force
it to DD mode.

>  Do the Masters use a standard 1-1 wired cable to connect to floppy drives?

Yes.