Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : StormTrooper
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue May 13 2025 07:16:03

-=> StormTrooper wrote to Cougar428 <=-

 St> Some of the floppy drives are smart enough to check the disk capacity
 St> before letting you format it. They'd either refuse to format
 St> incorrectly or ejaculate the disk instead of trying to work with it.
 St> Not sure if this happened in the PC world...

It depended on the BIOS and OS.  HD 3.5" disk drives had a signal that would
tell the computer what kind of disk was in the drive.  Whether the computer
listened to that signal or not was questionable early on.


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