Pentagon & 1.2M

Wednesday July 26 1995 18:34, Vlad Ipatov wrote to All:

VI> Why didn’t the Pentagon want to read 5" 1.2M disks formatted by hobetta
VI> normally? And read 360K disks?

Ha! Why should the Pentagon read 1.2M disks? Is it special? Or did you
connect the drive to it on 1.2 without installing 720 on it?!? Although I’m not very good at this - maybe this is possible...

C u l8r,
Dmitry aka ZDW.

Monday July 31 1995 00:52, Vlad Ipatov ─── Evgeny Milun:

EM>> It’s not a Pentagon, it’s a disk drive. Because you have it at 720 KB.

VI> And how to make it read. I did not find any external physical differences between the 360 ​​and
VI> 1.2 floppy disks. In 3" 1.4, you can seal the hole, but here...
Here it is somewhat simpler and more difficult at the same time. You need to find
an HD/LD (High Density/Low Density) jumper or something similar on the drive, and move it to the Low position. After that, you will be able to work with both 720 disks and with
megabytes (though if they are not formatted to 1.2, the controller
cannot read them).

Good luck !

VI>> 360 and 1.2 I did not find. In 3" 1.4, you can seal the hole, but here...
EM> Here it is somewhat simpler and more difficult at the same time. You need to find an HD/LD (High Density/Low Density) jumper on the drive
EM> or something similar, and
EM> move it to the Low position. After that you can work as with 720
EM> disks, as well as with megabytes (though if they are not formatted on
EM> 1.2, the controller cannot read them). Good luck

and Pentagon rearranged :[= ]
Or will my PC mark them up differently? I set it to 360K from the bios.

With respect Vlad