Timeline for Can I use a 2880 KiB ED floppy disk in a drive that uses the standard 1440 KiB HD disk?
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| May 5, 2020 at 22:45 | comment | added | user722 | 2.88M support in floppy controllers was actually pretty common. I've got a number of motherboards that let me select that as an option. On the other hand, I've never even seen a 2.88M drive or floppy. | |
| May 5, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | Chromatix | @fuz Yes, that's basically what I was driving at. But it's moot since these things are unobtanium anyway. | |
| May 5, 2020 at 13:24 | comment | added | fuz | A normal 1.44MB drive won't work with 2.88MB disks simply for the fact that 2.88MB disks use perpendicular recording whereas 1.44MB disks use longitudinal recording. The head must be different to support the ED format. | |
| May 2, 2020 at 23:59 | history | answered | Chromatix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |