ArmorAlley
Well-known member
I have confused memories about what floppy drives can format what floppies and a quick search has confused me more.
I have a newly recapped 512K which has a newly greased 400K* floppy drive (thanks @Breathing).
I am setting up an SE now and I would like to be able to format & write floppies on the SE for the 512K.
I have a Floppy Emu for the 512K so the floppy won't be in constant use.
I had thought that I needed an 800KB floppy drive to format 400K floppies and that 1.4MB floppy drives couldn't do it.
From the articles that I found online, reading & writing 400K floppies is and isn't supported by 1.4MB floppy drives and under Systems 7.1 and 7.5.5.
The SE will be running System 6.0.8 and System 7.1.
What floppy drive should I put into my SE if I want to format, read & write 400K floppies: 800K or 1.4MB?
Thanks.
* I should really use the terms single-density, double-density and high-density.
I have a newly recapped 512K which has a newly greased 400K* floppy drive (thanks @Breathing).
I am setting up an SE now and I would like to be able to format & write floppies on the SE for the 512K.
I have a Floppy Emu for the 512K so the floppy won't be in constant use.
I had thought that I needed an 800KB floppy drive to format 400K floppies and that 1.4MB floppy drives couldn't do it.
From the articles that I found online, reading & writing 400K floppies is and isn't supported by 1.4MB floppy drives and under Systems 7.1 and 7.5.5.
The SE will be running System 6.0.8 and System 7.1.
What floppy drive should I put into my SE if I want to format, read & write 400K floppies: 800K or 1.4MB?
Thanks.
* I should really use the terms single-density, double-density and high-density.