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