First post, by Vipersan
So ...I have a modernish tower equipped with a 3.5 inch floppy drive ..
checked that it works ...
A: is recognised
powered down and replaced the 3.5 inch floppy with a VINTAGE PC TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" 5 1/4" Floppy
I recently aquired ..
My tower only supports 1 floppy at a time ..so no A / B
option ..but A can be selected as 360kb 5.25 or 1.2mb 5.25 ...or various 3.5 inch 720kb / 1.44mb or 2.88 mb
The 5.25 inch floppies I am trying to read are a full disk set of Leasure Suit Larry III ...which according to the label on the box are MSDOS disks 680k
I am a bit out of my depth here ..but assumed I can simply swap the connector on the end of the floppy cable from standard 3.5 inch to 5.25 inch edge connection ..
The cable I'm using has both ..both before and after the 'twist' in the cable.
So my questions are ..
pre twist or post cable twist ..and what do I set in the bios ?
Assuming I can even read the disks in widows XP...??
Is there anything else I should be aware of ?
Obviously at this point the floppy drive is an unknown as it isn't new ..but does accept floppy disks and does spin up the disks.
Advice welcomed..
rgds
VS