[SunHELP] Floppy drives...

[Bran Tregare]

The sun floppy drives are tri-mode (mode 3?) drives 1M, 1.5M and 2M (720K, 
1.2MB and 1.44 MB formatted), a regular PC floppy drive won't work as they 
are dual mode only 1M & 2M Plus the sun drive has a servo to eject the disk 
that is tied to a line on fhte cable and that may well be what is being 
tested for when it seems to not be able to find the floppy.

  I have a source of Sun floppy drives for about $12 to 15 a pop....


At 09:15 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote:

>What software _requires_ a floppy???
>
>I think Apple Mac floppies work.  But for $35.00 you can
>buy a Sun floppy from one of the used equipment resellers.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bscanlan at irish-times.com [mailto:bscanlan at irish-times.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 5:57 AM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] Floppy drives...
> >
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Anybody ever have luck with getting a floppy drive taken from
> > a PC working on an E250 (or any Sun machine really) to work?
> >
> > Can't find anything on the 'net...
> >
> > A friend of mine is having problems - Why do people write software
> > that depends on a floppy all the same? Anyway.
> >
> > test floppy returns "Device not found" and when the cable
> > is plugged in upside down the device is found, but
> > test floppy moans about tracks not being found etc.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Brian.
> > --
> > Brian Scanlan, Systems Administrator.
> > Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com
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