Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : slacker
From : mary4
Date : Fri May 09 2025 05:43:29

 sl> Yep, same here. I used to use my 486 with a 1.2MB drive to write
 sl> floppies for my XT which has a 360Kb drive. It would generally work but
 sl> the hit or miss errors after a while would drive me nuts.
 sl> 
XT now has a new bios which allows it to read HD disks!@ and drives!
i think it is called GlaDOS bios sor something like that
 sl> I ended up just putting a 360kb drive in my 486 for this to avoid the HD
 sl> to DD and visa versa reading/writing errors. 
 sl> 
check out the bios
 sl> I did that about 20 years ago and haven't had issues since. (I actually
 sl> used both of those computers tonight... though not the floppy drives.)
 sl> 
 sl> 
keep them forever and use floppies! >:3
 sl> 

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